Review Stages 35-40 Culture

Front 1

slave who wrote correspondence from dictation or copying


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Back 1

notārius, a librārius, or servus ab epistulīs

Front 2

copies of letters that had been glued together


35

Back 2

volūmina

Front 3

a scroll

Back 3

volūmen

Front 4

letters of introduction to influential people


35

Back 4

epistulae commendāticiae

Front 5

business of life

Back 5

negōtium

Front 6

learning and studying


35

Back 6

studia

Front 7

wax tablets


35

Back 7

cērae

Front 8

page of papyrus


35

Back 8

charta

Front 9

famous Roman orator who wrote over 900 letters

35

Back 9

Cicero

Front 10

Two forms of literature established by the Romans

35

Back 10

verse satire, letter writing

Front 11

beginning of a Roman letter


35

Back 11

SAL, SD, SPD, or salūtem plurimam dīcit

Front 12

when Roman writers expected all verbs to be read in the present tense, at the time of reading 35

Back 12

epistolary tense

Front 13

the main motive for publishing literary works and letters

35

Back 13

dignītas

Front 14

a public reading of a writer's work:

36

Back 14

recitatio

Front 15

public hall used for public recitations

36

Back 15

auditorium

Front 16

person giving a public reading of a literary work

36

Back 16

recitator

Front 17

author's short introduction about his work, told to his audience
36

Back 17

praefātio

Front 18

friends of the emperor


37

Back 18

amīcī principis

Front 19

series of honors following a career ladder;also known as the"course of honor"

37

Back 19

cursus honōrum

Front 20

twenty young men served in Rome as junior officials;managed law courts and prisons

37

Back 20

vīgintivir

Front 21

young men serving as junior officers in a legion


37

Back 21

trbūnus mīlitum

Front 22

treasurer


37

Back 22

quaestor

Front 23

ex-quaestor who acted as helpers to the common people (plebs)

37

Back 23

trbūnus plēbis

Front 24

was responsible for the upkeep of public buildings, baths, sewers, and roads

37

Back 24

aedile

Front 25

ran the Roman law court


37

Back 25

praetor

Front 26

;Roman equivalent of the president;there were two of them
37

Back 26

consuls

Front 27

head of the Roman household


38

Back 27

paterfamilias

Front 28

opinion of each member of the consilium

37

Back 28

sententia

Front 29

ceremony of betrothal or engagement

38

Back 29

sponsalia

Front 30

money or property paid to the groom's family (dowry)

38

Back 30

dōs

Front 31

union in which the bride ceased to be a member of her father's family but passed into control of her husband 38

Back 31

cum manu

Front 32

control

Back 32

manus

Front 33

ancient wedding ceremony centered around eating of a sacred cake
38

Back 33

confarrāteo

Front 34

flame colored bridal veil


38

Back 34

flammeum

Front 35

locket or amulet worn on a chain around the neck until puberty
38

Back 35

bulla

Front 36

ceremonial joining of the right hands

38

Back 36

iūnctiō dextrārum

Front 37

the wedding feast


38

Back 37

cēna nuptiālis

Front 38

booksellers


39

Back 38

bibliopōlae

Front 39

taught older students public speaking and debate

39

Back 39

rhetor

Front 40

Roman comedic playwright


39

Back 40

Plautus

Front 41

jury courts (commissions of inquiry)

40

Back 41

quaestiones

Front 42

individual judge assigned a case by the praetor

40

Back 42

iudex

Front 43

system of laws


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Back 43

leges

Front 44

ten-man board in 5th cent BC that wrote down the law on bronze tablets
40

Back 44

decemviri lēgibus scrībendīs

Front 45

Important Points of Law written on Bronze tablets

40

Back 45

The Twelve Tables (duodecim tabulae)

Front 46

the basis of modern day legal systems in North America and Europe
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Back 46

Roman Law