Inscription from Pompeii, in colloquial Latin, [76].
Julia, death of, [249].
Julian's edict to regulate the price of grain, [177-8].
Labor-unions. (See Guilds.)
Lactantius, "On the Deaths of Those Who Persecuted (the Christians)," [177].
Languages spoken in Italy in the early period, [5], [8-12];
influence of other languages on Latin, [22]. (See also Greek.)
Latin language,
extent, [4];
unifying influences, [16];
uniformity, [17-18];
evidence of inscriptions, [17-18];
causes of its spread, [12-18], [28-29];
colonies, [12];
roads, [13];
>merchants, [14];
soldiers, [15];
government officials, [15-18];
the church, [16], [29];
its superiority not a factor, [28];
sentiment a cause, [28-9];
"peaceful invasion," [29].
Latin, colloquial, its study neglected till recently, [34];
first noticed in modern times by Henri Étienne, [34-5];
its forms, how determined, [39-42];
ancient authority for its existence, [39-10];
evidence of the Romance languages, [40-1];
aid derived from a knowledge of spoken English, [41-2];
analytical formation of tenses, [41];
slang, [41-2];
extant specimens, [42-3];
causes of variation, [43];
external influences on, [46];
influence of culture, [46];
definition of colloquial Latin, [48];
relation to literary Latin, [50];
careless pronunciation, [55-8];
accent different from literary Latin, [58-9];
confusion of genders, [62-3];
monotonous style, [63];
tendencies in vocabulary, 64-7:
in syntax, [67];
effect of loss of final letters, [69];
reunion with literary Latin, [72-3];
still exists in the Romance languages, [73];
date when it became the separate Romance language, [73-4];
specimens quoted, [74-8].
Latin, literary,
modelled on Greek, [44-5];
relation to colloquial Latin, [50];
standardized by grammarians, [60];
style unnatural, [70-1];
reunion with colloquial Latin, [72-3];
disappearance, [75].
Latin, preliterary, [50-2].
Laws of the Twelve Tables, [51];
excerpt from, [75].
Living, cost of, comparison with to-day, [174-6].
Livius Andronicus, [52-3].
Lucan's account of the death of Curio, [266-7].
Matius, Gaius,
early life and character, [268-9];
with Cæsar in Gaul, [269-270];
friendship with Cæsar, passim;
accepted no office, [271-2];
devotion to Cæsar, [272-3];
unpopularity due to it, [273-4];
correspondence with Cicero, [274-285];
defence of his devotion to Cæsar, [281-5];
prompted Cicero's best philosophical works, [285];
later life, [285-6];
literary works, [286].
Menippean satire, [133], [140].
Milesian tales, [133-6].
Money, unit of, [166].
Nævius, [52].
Ninus romance, [129];
and Petronius, [131-2].
Organization, of capitalists (see Corporations);
of labor (see Guilds).
Oscan, [8-11].
Paternalism,
beginnings of, in Rome, [145-6];
effect on people, [149].
Patron, office of, [199-200];
benefactions of, [199-200].
Pervigilium Veneris, [109].
Petronius, Satiræ, [12], [117-144];
excerpt from, [76];
original size, [118];
motif, [119], [127];
Trimalchio's Dinner, [119];
satirical spirit, [120-24];
literary criticism, [122];
Horatian humor, [122-3];
cynical attitude, [123-4];
realism, [124];
prose-poetic form, [125], [140-3];
origin of this genre of literature, [125-144];
the Satiræ and the epic, [127];
and the heroic romance, [132-3];
and the Menippean satire, [133], [140];
and the Milesian tale, [133-136];
and the prologue of comedy, [136-7];
and the mime, [137-9];
the Satiræ perhaps a mixture of many types, [143-4];
originated with Petronius, [144].
Plautus, [52].
Poetry of the common people,
dedicatory, [101-6];
ephemeral, [107-116];
graffiti, [107];
borrowed from the Augustan poets, [110-11];
folk poetry, [113-16];
children's jingles, [114].
Pompey,
his benefactions, [181];
ordered to march against Cæsar, [261];
et passim in chapter on Curio.
Prices,
controlled by corporations, [213-14];
attempts at government regulation, [150-1].
Probus, the "Appendix" of, [56], [77].
Prose-poetic form, [125], [140-3].
Ritschl, the Plautine scholar, [35].
Romance, the realistic, origin obscure, [117].
(See Petronius, Satiræ.)
Romance languages,
causes of their differentiation, Gröber's theory, [23-6];
Ascoli's theory, [26];
date of their beginning, [30-1];
descended from colloquial Latin, [35-7];
reasons of their agreement, [37-8];
common source, [38].
Romances, the Greek, theory of origin, [127-8].
Salaries of municipal officers, [190].
(See also Wages.)
Scaptius and Cicero, [211].
Seneca the elder, "Controversiæ," [130].
Strasburg oath, [78].
Strikes, [229].
Theatres a municipal expense, [190].
Trimalchio's Dinner, [119].