| A | B |
|---|
| underwear | subligaculum (a loincloth) |
| term for basic garment for labor or casual wear around the house? | tunica |
| who could wear the toga? | only male Roman citizens (foreigners and slaves could not wear it) |
| terms for most common toga? | toga virilis/libera/pura |
| toga worn by one running for office | toga candida (means "bright white") |
| most common material for the toga? | wool |
| earliest type of toga characterized by short length? | toga exigua |
| term for the "bordered toga"? | toga praetexta |
| What is a "latus clavus"? | broad/wide stripe (on a toga) |
| What is a "angustus clavus"? | narrow stripe (on a toga) |
| Who wore the toga praetexta? | senators (wide); equestrians and boys (narrow) |
| Term for toga worn by victorious generals and emperors? | toga picta |
| Terms for the funeral toga | toga pulla (or) sordida |
| Term for a woman's dress? | stola |
| Term for the formal shawl worn by a woman? | palla |
| What is a calceus? | shoe |
| What is a solea? | sandal |
| What is a zona? | belt |
| What is a cingulum? | belt |
| What is a petasus? | wide-brimmed traveler's hat |
| What is a lacerna? | cloak |
| What is a paenula? | a traveler's cloak |
| large, central room | atrium |
| opening in roof of atrium | compluvium |
| basin in middle of atrium floor | impluvium |
| small temple in corner of atrium | lararium |
| ancestral gods | lares |
| gods of the cupboard/larder | penates |
| dining room | triclinium |
| kitchen | culina |
| bedroom | cubiculum |
| master's study | tablinum |
| garden | hortus |
| pond/pool | piscina |
| area with colonnade | peristylium |
| private bath | balneum |
| room between atrium and peristylium | tablinum |
| death masks | imagines |
| place where imagines are kept | alae |
| small rooms/alcoves off of atrium near tablinum | alae |
| entry way | fauces |
| shops on street side of house | tabernae |
| entry door | ianua |
| servants' entrance | posticum |
| waiting area in front of entry door | vestibulum |
| term for the addressing of the deceased by the eldest son | conclamatio |
| lectus funebris | funeral couch where body rested in state |
| what was used to mark a house where the deceased lay | pine or cypress |
| undertakers | libitinarii |
| parade | pompa |
| eulogy | laudatio |
| where was the eulogy given | forum |
| death masks | imagines |
| who wore the imagines | actors |
| what special groups were hired to "perform" at a funeral | professional mourners, musicians, dancers and mimes |
| sacred boundary of a city | pomerium |
| silicernium | feast held immediately after the funeral |
| days of mourning | nine |
| cena novendialis | feast held at the end of the mourning period |
| festivals for the dead | Lemuria & Parentalia |
| collegia funeraticia | funeral/burial clubs |
| niches for the ashes of the dead | columbaria |
| Who are the attendants who carry fasces? | lictors |
| bed/couch | lectus/i |
| chair/seat | sella/subsella |
| table | mensa |
| How long did Pliny say a typical cena lasted? | 3 hours |
| When did the cena start? | 9 - 10 hour (3-4 P.M.) |
| What did guests bring? | mappa (napkin) |
| dining room | triclinium |
| ideal number for a cena? | 9 |
| terms for 1st course | gustatio/promulsis/antecena |
| types of food served during 1st course? | egg, vegetables, shellfish, salad |
| What is mulsum? | wine flavored with honey |
| When was mulsum served? | 1st course |
| Name for 2nd course of cena? | prima mensa/ferculum |
| What was served during the second course of cena? | meats, seafood, poultry |
| favorite meat of Romans? | pork |
| When was the best wine served? | during secunda mensa (dessert) |
| term for 3rd course? | secunda mensa (dessert) |
| What was served during the secunda mensa? | apples (mala), fruit and pastries |
| "From the egg all the way to the apples". | "Ab ovo usque ad mala" (Horace) |
| three types of fish pastes | garum/liquamen/muria |
| What common modern utensil did the Romans not use? | fork |
| Name common foods which the Romans did not have. | tomatoes, potatoes, corn, most citrus, bananas, sugar, tea, coffee |
| term for drinking party? | comissatio (or compotatio) |
| term for the "drinking king" | arbiter bibendi (or) magister bibendi |
| How was the arbiter bibendi determined? | roll of the dice |
| term for dice | tali (knucklebones) |
| best roll of the dice? | Venus |
| worst roll of the dice? | Canis (dog) |
| What did the arbiter bibendi decide? | 1)ratio of water to wine 2)insanae leges (crazy rules) how much to drink, ect. |
| Did women participate in the comissatio? | No |
| term for a Roman's first name? | praenomen |
| Approximately how many first names for men were in common used during the Late Republic? | 18 |
| term the a Roman's second name? | nomen |
| Which name was the "gens" or "family name"? | nomen |
| term for a Roman's third name? | cognomen |
| Which name was a Roman's branch of the family? | cognomen |
| What is the term for a fourth name which was honorific | agnomen |
| From which name was a girl's name taken? | nomen (gens) |
| What was the ientaculum? | breakfast |
| What was prandium? | lunch |
| What was the largest meal of the day? | cena |
| What is the early Republic term for supper? | vesperna |
| What is the symbol for Roman authority? | fasces |
| Term for elementary teacher | litterator (or) magister ludi/litterarum |
| Term for secondary teacher | grammaticus |
| Term for college/university level teacher | rhetor |
| slave who escorted boy to school and waited in back of class till lessons were finished? | paedagogus |
| Roman writer who made his teacher Orbilius "plagosus" famous? | Horace |
| Term for morning "greeting" which clients made to their patrons | salutatio |
| term for a freedman | libertus/i |
| When did the salutatio begin? | first two hours after sunrise |
| Special slave who told his master the name (and other important info) about people | nomenclator |
| salutator | term of a client "greeter" |
| term for the basket or dole which a patron provided for a client | sportula |
| Which friend of Augustus is synonymous with patronage? | Maecenas |
