The Common People of Ancient Rome
The Common People of Ancient Rome
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He also gave to the seviri Augustales, and to thepriests of the Lares, and to the overseers of the city wards, 120, 000sesterces, in order that from the income of this sum they might have apublic dinner on the same day. Him, for his services to the community, thesenate has chosen patron of the town. "[100] A town commonly showed itsappreciation of what had been done for it by setting up a statue in honorof its benefactor, as was done in the case of Fabius Severus, and thepublic squares of Itali...an and provincial towns must have been adorned withmany works of art of this sort. It amuses one to find at the bottom ofsome of the commemorative tablets attached to these statues, the statementthat the man distinguished in this way, "contented with the honor, hashimself defrayed the cost of the monument. " To pay for a populartestimonial to one's generosity is indeed generosity in its perfect form. The statues themselves have disappeared along with the towns which erectedthem, but the tablets remain, and by a strange dispensation of fate themonument which a town has set up to perpetuate the memory of one of itscitizens is sometimes the only record we have of the town's own existence.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
He also gave to the seviri Augustales, and to thepriests of the Lares, and to the overseers of the city wards, 120, 000sesterces, in order that from the income of this sum they might have apublic dinner on the same day. Him, for his services to the community, thesenate has chosen patron of the town. "[100] A town commonly showed itsappreciation of what had been done for it by setting up a statue in honorof its benefactor, as was done in the case of Fabius Severus, and thepublic squares of Itali...an and provincial towns must have been adorned withmany works of art of this sort. It amuses one to find at the bottom ofsome of the commemorative tablets attached to these statues, the statementthat the man distinguished in this way, "contented with the honor, hashimself defrayed the cost of the monument. " To pay for a populartestimonial to one's generosity is indeed generosity in its perfect form. The statues themselves have disappeared along with the towns which erectedthem, but the tablets remain, and by a strange dispensation of fate themonument which a town has set up to perpetuate the memory of one of itscitizens is sometimes the only record we have of the town's own existence.
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