[4] Master, "Lord" of slaves and freedmen.
[5] Rheda.
[6] Most wealthy Romans had such a major domo, whose position was often one of honour and trust.
[7] Pænula.
[8] The second order of the Roman nobility.
[9] A Greek gold piece worth about $3.60 at the time of the story. At this time Rome coined little gold.
[10] Good! Good! Hurrah!
[11] Ergastulum.
[12] Slave household.
[13] Every Roman had a prænomen, or "Christian name"; also a gentile name of the gens or clan to which he belonged; and commonly in addition a cognomen, usually an epithet descriptive of some personal peculiarity of an ancestor, which had fastened itself upon the immediate descendants of that ancestor. The Livii Drusi were among the noblest of the Roman houses.