[113] Pliny, Epistles, vii, 27. See another story in Plautus's Mostellaria.
[114] The letters D.M. found on Roman tombs are the initials of Dei Manes.
[115] They were called the Penates, that is to say, the gods of the interior.
[116] In the language of the Roman law the wife, children, and slaves "are not their own masters."