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Latin terms Final KING STREET LAURIER
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04/17/2011

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Panem et circenses
Definition
Bread and circuses
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Carpe diem
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Sieze the day
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Lex
Definition
law
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Civis
Definition
Citizen
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Tria nomina
Definition
Three names of a Roman citizen
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Lus latii
Definition
Latin rights
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Paterfamilias
Definition
Father of the famliy
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Patria potestas
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Power of life and death over children
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Matrona
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Wife
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Contubernium
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Type of marriage used by soldiers; not recognized by law
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Dos
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Dowry
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Manus
Definition
Husband's legal control over wife
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Nutrix
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Nurse
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Ludus
Definition
Elementary school for boys and girls
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Cena
Definition
Dinner
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Damnatio memoriae
Definition
Public erasure
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Pietas
Definition
Piety
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Parentalia
Definition
Festival/dinner banquet honouring death
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Collegia
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Funeral club
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Columbarium
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Underground tombs
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Negotiatores
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Large scale traders
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Vernae
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Being born into slavery
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Latifundia
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Agricultural work
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Peculium
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Money given to slave by master--saved to buy freedom
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Manumission
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Freeing of a slave
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Macellum
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Gourmet meat, fish, vegetable market
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Thermopolium
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Wine shop; sex; gambling
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Venatio
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Animal hunt in arena--gladiators
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Bestiarius
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Beast fighters (gladiators)
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Dextrarum iunctio
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Joining of hands as a symbol of marriage
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Liberta/libertus
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Free woman/man
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Horrea
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Grain warehouse
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Garum
Definition
Stinky fish sauce
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Mappa
Definition
Napkin (iiindispensible)
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Thermae
Definition
Forum baths, Pompeii
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Tepidarium, caldarium,frigidarium
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Warm room, hot room, cold room
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Imperatrix
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Female commander eg. Agrippina the Younger
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Judicial Magistrates
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Judge in criminal and civil cases
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Pater Patriae
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Father of the country
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Maiestas
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Treason law--delatation and delator
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Civis Romanus Sum
Definition
Emperor Caracella, granted citizenship to all free men within his empire
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Paedegogues
Definition
Male slaves who raised/looked after children
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Ludii Magister
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School master
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Grammaticus
Definition
Grammar teacher
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Epodes
Definition
After songs (Horace)**Remember Odes
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Iius Romani
Definition
Roman rights
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Res Gestae
Definition
Deeds of Deified Augustus
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Pax Augusta
Definition
Peace of Augustus
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Toga praetexta; toga virilis
Definition
Toga worn by senators and young boys; toga worn by men
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Stola; pallium
Definition
Elaborate outer tunic gathered at waist and worn by women; cloak worn by women
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