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Often appears with: custom and the manners of a people · villa publica · tyber sacrifices · the passions and the emotions · the city and urban life · slaves excluded from ceremonies · secular games · roman vs greek education · roman villa definition · roman morals · roman consul election · quintus fabius maximus speech
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“The magnificence of Philip’s shows and entertainments dazzled the eyes of the multitude. The devout were employed in the rites of superstition, whilst the reflecting few revolved in their anxious minds the past history and the future fate of the empire.” Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · observation
“But since during the present war, and with the enemy we have now to encounter, none of our generals has ever committed an error which has not been attended with most disastrous consequences to us, it behoves you to use the same circumspection in giving your suffrages for the creation of consuls” Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 · precept
“And since there can be no villa where there is no farm and that well cultivated, how can you call this house of yours a villa which has no land appurtenant to it and no cattle or horses?” Marcus Porcius Cato (the Elder) and Marcus Terentius Varro, Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Var · precept
At Rome’s consul election amid the Punic War, Quintus Fabius Maximus urges careful selection to face Hannibal and frames the decision using past cavalry duels and storm-sea piloting metaphors.
fallen by lot on the junior century of the Anien tribe, they appointed Titus Otacilius and Marcus Aemilius Regillus, consuls, when Quintus Fabius, having obtained silence, delivered the following speech: 8. "If we had either peace in Italy, or had war with such an enemy that the necessity to be careful was less urgent than it is, I should consider that man as wanting in respect for your liberty, who would at all imp…
On returning from the East to Rome, Philip celebrates the secular games with elaborate rites and exclusions, then Gibbon describes how Rome’s empire and discipline decline under oppression and barbarian pressure.
Maximin.—Part III. On his return from the East to Rome, Philip, desirous of obliterating the memory of his crimes, and of captivating the affections of the people, solemnized the secular games with infinite pomp and magnificence. Since their institution or revival by Augustus, 56 they had been celebrated by Claudius, by Domitian, and by Severus, and were now renewed the fifth time, on …
He explains ancient Greek education as gymnastic training for war and musical instruction to soften temper, then contrasts Roman education on the Campus Martius with a claimed lack of music.
who have given us an account of those institutions, to humanize the mind, to soften the temper, and to dispose it for performing all the social and moral duties of public and private life. In ancient Rome, the exercises of the Campus Martius answered the same purpose as those of the Gymnasium in ancient Greece, and they seem to have answered it equally well. But among the Romans there was not…
He contrasts ancient Greek education (gymnastics and music) with Roman education at the Campus Martius, arguing Romans’ morals were generally superior despite lacking Greek-style musical training.
an account of those institutions, to humanize the mind, to soften the temper, and to dispose it for performing all the social and moral duties of public and private life. In ancient Rome, the exercises of the Campus Martius answered the same purpose as those of the Gymnasium in ancient Greece, and they seem to have answered it equally well. But among the Romans there was nothing which corresponded to the musical edu…
At the villa publica by the Campus Martius, Appius Claudius, Cornelius Merula, and others debate what counts as a Roman villa, contrasting lavish town-like ornament with productive farm property.
when I was your guest a few days ago at your Reatine villa on my way to lake Velinus to settle the controversy between the people of Interamna and Reate.[160] "But" he added, "is not this villa, which our ancestors constructed, simpler and so better than that elaborate one of yours at Reate: do you see any where here any furniture of citrus wood or ormolu, any decorations of vermillion or blue, any tessellations or …