Vocabulary 3 Flashcards

Question

Vestibulum

Answer 1

Courtyard between the entrance and Atrium in rich ppl's houses, where Salutatio took place

Answer 2

Closed clothing

Answer 3

Slave who folded his master's toga

Answer 4

Term for clothing worn at dinner (e.g. Synthesis)

Answer 5

Common form of demonstration of sympathy with a fallen leader, magistrates wore Toga Virilis and normal citizens wore Toga Pulla

Answer 6

Slave's slave

Answer 7

Vilicus' wife in charge of female slaves

Answer 8

Vilicus' wife, in charge of getting eggs from the chickens

Answer 9

Slave in charge of the other slaves on a farm

Answer 10

Overseer on a country estate

Answer 11

Festival starting August 19th, anticipated the harvest of grapes and making of wine

Answer 12

Wine cellar

Answer 13

Fermented wine

Answer 14

Step-father

Answer 15

Ribbon, used for a woman's hair

Answer 16

Praenomen only used by gens Iulia, but went out of use early

Answer 17

Type of garden, a parterre of trim flowerbeds in geometrical designs

Answer 18

Bread made of coarse flour, flour and bran, or bran alone

Answer 19

Best bread made of pure wheat flour

Answer 20

Bread made of coarse flour, flour and bran, or bran alone

Answer 21

13-21 of February, the last day was called the Feralia, to celebrate the dead

Answer 22

A wall made with Opus Caementicum

Answer 23

Small shield used by Thracian gladiator

Answer 24

Head of the household

Answer 25

Same as Patria potestas

Answer 26

Power of the paterfamilias over his family

Answer 27

Same as Patria potestas

Answer 28

What master became once a slave was freed

Answer 29

Originally a floor made of pounded down potsherds, but came to be the name for all floors

Answer 30

Slave's personal belongings

Answer 31

Possessions of those Alieno Iuri Subiecti

Answer 32

Went with boy to school

Answer 33

Slaves to carry rich children's stuff home from school

Answer 34

Gallery attached to a public building, where school might be held

Answer 35

Arbors, on which vines were hung

Answer 36

Court at the rear of the Tablinum surrounded by rooms set with flowers and trees

Answer 37

Lower class shoes

Answer 38

Side bolts for an outer door

Answer 39

Carriage used to carry spoil in a triumph

Answer 40

Four-wheeled carriage used for state functions

Answer 41

A hat worn by a slave for sale in lieu of a titulus meaning the buyer took all risks, also cap of freedom

Answer 42

Tall felt cap worn by people who work outdoors all day

Answer 43

People who crushed grain, hence the Cognomen Piso

Answer 44

Pool in the baths near the palaestra

Answer 45

Transfer wagon

Answer 46

Marble platform at Circus with boxes for magistrates

Answer 47

Chief of the pontifices, office generally held by the emperor

Answer 48

Suffix preceding owners name in genitive, in the name of a slave

Answer 49

Followed a master's name in the genitive to make the name of his slave

Answer 50

Gate through which dead gladiators were removed from the Amphitheater

Answer 51

Gate through which the procession of chariots entered the Circus

Answer 52

Gate through which the victorious chariot racers left

Answer 53

Doorposts often decorated with marble in elaborate designs

Answer 54

Semicircular passage between upper and lower cunei

Answer 55

Wine press

Answer 56

Days of a child's life before the dies lustricus

Answer 57

Gladiator at the top of his class

Answer 58

Step-child

Answer 59

Replaced Atriensis as purchaser of household goods

Answer 60

Sham gladiator fight with fake swords

Answer 61

Appetizer, given this name because Mulsum was drunk

Answer 62

Maid of honor, had to be univira

Answer 63

What a child was called before dies lustricus

Answer 64

Only artificial color used in late Republic, varied from the color garnet

Answer 65

Grave pits of the lower classes

Answer 66

Four-horse chariot

Answer 67

Charged with protecting the Sibylline books

Answer 68

Covered wagon used for travel, pulled by two or four horses

Answer 69

Second wedding feast in the house of the groom the day after

Answer 70

To break off an engagement

Answer 71

Gladiators who fought with a heavy net and trident

Answer 72

Nets, used for a woman's hair

Answer 73

Priest who took over king's duties in Republic

Answer 74

Person in charge of determining the proportion of water in the wine at a party

Answer 75

Funeral pyre

Answer 76

Wooden sword given to gladiator who was freed

Answer 77

Layer of concrete and rubble, used in a wall

Answer 78

Private Chapel

Answer 79

Sacrifice made 9 days after the funeral

Answer 80

Special gladiator food

Answer 81

Military cloak

Answer 82

Dancing priests of Mars

Answer 83

Like the Salii but for Quirinus

Answer 84

Where clients gathered at a patronus' house to greet him

Answer 85

Time when the patron met his clients

Answer 86

Standard unit of measure for paper

Answer 87

Sheets of papyrus

Answer 88

Scroll box

Answer 89

Long shield, worn by Samnite gladiators

Answer 90

Gladiator second in his class

Answer 91

Six-horse chariot

Answer 92

Stool for an ordinary person to sit on

Answer 93

Had Curved legs of ivory, was for magistrates, folded up for convenience

Answer 94

Seven-horse chariot

Answer 95

Bars for an outer door

Answer 96

Slaves owned by individuals

Answer 97

Slaves owned by the state

Answer 98

Semi-circular couch made for a round table

Answer 99

Seal, used to seal letter

Answer 100

Food eaten by the mourners at a funeral

Answer 101

Pocket of the toga at the breast where the fold crossed over

Answer 102

Father-in-law

Answer 103

Mother-in-law

Answer 104

Sunbathing room

Answer 105

Sandals or slippers

Answer 106

To get ready to leave

Answer 107

Stiff, straight, high-backed chair with solid arms, patron used it when receiving Clientes

Answer 108

Floor, in poorer houses made by smoothing the dirt between the walls

Answer 109

People wearing the Toga Pulla

Answer 110

Lap in the Circus

Answer 111

Ran down the middle of the Circus for about 2/3 of it's length

Answer 112

Wedding torch of white thorn

Answer 113

Gift of cold food from patron to client

Answer 114

Foundation for a wall

Answer 115

Distinctive dress of a Roman matron

Answer 116

What a married woman wore out of the house

Answer 117

Soft sash-like leather band, worn by women

Answer 118

Intermediate step between Narratio and Declamatio, taught by a rhetor

Answer 119

To be sold as a slave

Answer 120

Loin-cloth, or perhaps short shorts

Answer 121

Bench, used in Curia, by jurors in court, and by boys at school

Answer 122

Handkerchiefs

Answer 123

Independent

Answer 124

Sacrifice of a pig, sheep, and bull

Answer 125

Act of a father raising his child to acknowledge him, immediately after the birth of the child

Answer 126

Shoe-maker

Answer 127

Dinner dress worn at the table, Amictus, not worn out of the house except at Saturnalia

Answer 128

Slaves who delivered letters for their masters

Answer 129

Public inns, which travellers would only use as a last resort

Answer 130

Walled with boards (tabulae), originally had no door to the atrium but a separate outside door

Answer 131

Knucklebones used as dice, 5 were thrown at a time

Answer 132

Roof-tiles

Answer 133

Banquets beginning before the ninth hour

Answer 134

Warm room in the baths

Answer 135

Tokens exchanged by hospites

Answer 136

Dice, like our own

Answer 137

Metal heater used to heat the Alveus

Answer 138

Final name for the baths

Answer 139

Fasciae that covered the lower part of the leg

Answer 140

Name for a gladiator before his first public appearance

Answer 141

Apprenticeship

Answer 142

Sign hung from the neck of a slave for sale, contained age, nationality, and freedom from defects

Answer 143

Connected to the last sheet, containing the title and author

Answer 144

Chalked white toga of a candidate for public office

Answer 145

Wholly crimson, embroidered with gold, for a triumphing general

Answer 146

Toga worn by Curule Magistrates, Censors, and Dictators, also by boys, purple border

Answer 147

Toga worn by children

Answer 148

Dingy toga worn by someone in mourning or threatened by some great calamity

Answer 149

Plain toga made of white wool

Answer 150

Toga donned by adult men

Answer 151

Master's barber

Answer 152

Slave, who hung the ivy on the walls or trees

Answer 153

Military cloak

Answer 154

Dining Room, not necessarily near the kitchen

Answer 155

Three-horse chariot

Answer 156

Game played by three people in an equilateral triangle with two balls

Answer 157

Three nights, amount of time a wife had to stay away from her husband to avoid manus in an usus

Answer 158

In charge of the fire brigades at night

Answer 159

Funeral mound

Answer 160

Tunic of an Eques with a narrow purple stripe

Answer 161

Outer of two tunics

Answer 162

Inner of two tunics

Answer 163

A bundle of scrolls

Answer 164

Fasciae that covered the upper part of the leg

Answer 165

Heavy rammer used to pound down potsherds and things into the floor

Answer 166

Lead pipes that carried water into individual houses

Answer 167

Lash with bits of bone or metal attached

Answer 168

Flamen of Jupiter

Answer 169

Priests of special gods, first appointed by Numa

Answer 170

Flame colored veil

Answer 171

Woolen strips wraaped around the throat of the infirm

Answer 172

Braziers or charcoal stoves used to keep house warm

Answer 173

Cold room in the baths

Answer 174

Runaway slave

Answer 175

Clothes washer

Answer 176

Small, quiet funeral for children

Answer 177

Plebeian funeral with little pomp

Answer 178

Heavy forked log slave had to wear on his shoulders as punishment

Answer 179

Heavy, three-pronged spear or trident, used by Retiarii

Answer 180

Son-in-law

Answer 181

Guardian spirit of a boy

Answer 182

Place for walking

Answer 183

Style of gladiator fighting where gladiators fought in teams

Answer 184

Place for driving and riding

Answer 185

Fee paid by local candidate on his election

Answer 186

Heavily armed gladiators who replace Samnites in the empire

Answer 187

Someone bound to a person on equal footing

Answer 188

Doorkeeper

Answer 189

Wax busts of ancestors kept in the Alae

Answer 190

Busts of dead ancestors, kept in the Alae and displayed at funerals

Answer 191

Tiles that covered the flanges of the roof

Answer 192

Same as Patria potestas

Answer 193

Basin or hollow part of the floor that caught rain water from the compluvium

Answer 194

Term for clothing that was put on

Answer 195

Apartment, also a part of the house detached from the main house that others could rent

Answer 196

Slave of the owner of the apartments who acted as superintendent

Answer 197

Council of relatives called together by the paterfamilias when considering inflicting severe punishment on a family member

Answer 198

Guardian spirit of a girl

Answer 199

Receptacle where olive oil was placed after being squeezed out

Answer 200

Mantle, first worn by soldiers, then by better citizens to protect the toga from dust

Answer 201

Sweat bath in the baths

Answer 202

Panels dividing the ceiling

Answer 203

Heavy woolen cloak

Answer 204

Gladiator trainer

Answer 205

Volcanic rock, sometimes used in Opus Caementicum

Answer 206

Gladiators who fought with lassos

Answer 207

Gods of the crossroads, sacrificed to during the deductio

Answer 208

Kiln-burned bricks

Answer 209

Unburned bricks

Answer 210

Large farm owned by a rich capitalist

Answer 211

Bathroom near the Kitchen

Answer 212

Funeral oration

Answer 213

Wedding couch kept in the atrium across from the Ostium

Answer 214

Funeral couch, left in the atrium until deceased was buried

Answer 215

Wedding bed, which stood in the atrium on wedding night

Answer 216

Lowest couch, farthest to the right, reserved for host, wife, and other family members

Answer 217

Middle couch, between Summus and Imus, reserved for guests

Answer 218

Highest couch, farthest to the left, reserved for guests

Answer 219

Dinner couch, had arm at one end only

Answer 220

Festival in March where boys became men

Answer 221

Freedman as a member of a class

Answer 222

Freedman in reference to his master

Answer 223

Undertaker

Answer 224

General term for slaves who took dictation

Answer 225

Threshold, often had Salve in mosaic on it

Answer 226

Starting line at the Circus

Answer 227

Thread, used to seal letter

Answer 228

Farthest place to the right on the Lectus Medius given to the most distinguished guest

Answer 229

Slave in charge of punishing other slaves

Answer 230

Ivory or Silver ornament of crescent shape connected to side of Mulleus

Answer 231

Child's toys shaped like half moons

Answer 232

Sections that connected the praecinctiones

Answer 233

Pomegranate

Answer 234

Mamercus, used only by the gens Aemilia

Answer 235

Leather strap worn under the breasts by women

Answer 236

Wholesale slave dealer

Answer 237

Thick sleeves worn by Samnite gladiators on the right arm

Answer 238

Power of a husband over his wife

Answer 239

White cloth, dropped to signify the start of the games

Answer 240

Celebrated on the first of March for all matrons

Answer 241

Second course of Cena

Answer 242

First course of Cena

Answer 243

Third course of Cena

Answer 244

Midday snack

Answer 245

Midday siesta

Answer 246

Midday siesta

Answer 247

Lower mill stone

Answer 248

Turning points

Answer 249

The release of a beaten gladiator

Answer 250

A race in the Circus, usually 7 laps

Answer 251

Table or stand with but one support

Answer 252

Shoe first worn by patricians then by all curule magistrates, red in color, shaped like a fish

Answer 253

Drink made with water and honey allowed to ferment

Answer 254

Drink made of 4 parts wine and 1 part honey

Answer 255

Country town

Answer 256

Gladiators with fish shaped helmets

Answer 257

Wedding cake

Answer 258

New wine straight out of the press, often drunk unfermented as cider

Answer 259

To put on the Toga Pulla

Answer 260

Nomen ending that signified Etruscan origin

Answer 261

Narrative, taught to children by a rhetor

Answer 262

Trousered nations, term of contempt for Gauls or barbarians in general

Answer 263

Mock naval battle

Answer 264

Sometimes written on threshold

Answer 265

Knot, how Roman girls tied their hair back

Answer 266

Bride's belt

Answer 267

Slave who whispered people's names in his master's ears

Answer 268

Slave who told his master the names of people

Answer 269

Step-mother

Answer 270

Used in a wall, six inch layer of concrete on top of Rudus

Answer 271

The spirits of all things

Answer 272

Market days, school holidays

Answer 273

Daughter-in-law

Answer 274

Slave for children

Answer 275

Hall or saloon

Answer 276

Better, second pressing of the olive

Answer 277

Walls of rubble-work or cement

Answer 278

A bunch of stones cemented together

Answer 279

Walls of dressed stone

Answer 280

Regularly sized tufa stones set in a net pattern

Answer 281

Master's hairdresser

Answer 282

Mistress' slave

Answer 283

Ceremonial bone, buried in the case of a cremation

Answer 284

Doorkeeper

Answer 285

Entrance to the house, including doorway and door itself

Answer 286

Eggs used to signify each lap completed at the Circus

Answer 287

Slave who went with boy to school

Answer 288

Slave that accompanied a child to school

Answer 289

Heavy coarse wrap of wool, leather, or fur

Answer 290

Excercised ground at the baths

Answer 291

Shawl-like wrap for outdoors

Answer 292

Military cloak

Answer 293

Bread made of coarse flour, flour and bran, or bran alone

Answer 294

Bread made of coarse flour, flour and bran, or bran alone

Answer 295

Regular panels of wall colored different colors

Answer 296

Table with rectangular top raised at the edges

Answer 297

Heavy woolen cloak, favorite of poor people, who used it in place of several different garments

Answer 298

Nomen ending that signified Gallic origin

Answer 299

People related only by marriage

Answer 300

The adoption of a non-paterfamilias into another family

Answer 301

Adoption of a paterfamilias, had to be sanctioned by the pontifex maximus

Answer 302

Slaves that saw their master home

Answer 303

Set of columns set up over a tomb to make it seem like a temple front

Answer 304

Where Caecuban wine was produced, pronounced by Augustus as best of all wines

Answer 305

On the South side of Mt. Massicus, produced Falernian wine, more famous than Caecuban

Answer 306

People related through only males

Answer 307

Celebratory name like Africanus

Answer 308

Wings of the Atrium

Answer 309

Aqueduct built by Augustus for his Naumachia

Answer 310

Hot water tank in the caldarium

Answer 311

Term for clothing that was wrapped

Answer 312

Jars smaller than dolia that fermented wine was placed in

Answer 313

Dark and bitter first pressing of an olive

Answer 314

Gladiators who fought blindfolded

Answer 315

Narrow passage between Atrium and Peristylium

Answer 316

Aqueduct started by Caligula and finished by Claudius

Answer 317

Aqueduct that supplied the lower levels of Rome, built 40 years after Aqua Appia

Answer 318

Slave who went before the master to clear the way

Answer 319

Pig, more specifically a boar

Answer 320

Dressing room in the baths

Answer 321

Aqueduct, 4 built during the Republic and 7 under the empire

Answer 322

Last aqueduct built, under Severus Alexander

Answer 323

Aqueduct built by Appius Claudius in 312 B.C., all but three hundred feet underground

Answer 324

Aqueduct started by Caligula and finished by Claudius

Answer 325

Aqueduct built by Agrippa

Answer 326

First high level aqueduct in Rome, built by Q. Marcius Rex, to go up the Capitoline, in 140 B.C.

Answer 327

Completed in 125 B.C., last aqueduct built during the republic

Answer 328

Built by Trajan in A.D. 109

Answer 329

Aqueduct built by Agrippa

Answer 330

Originally a butler in charge of accounts and furniture, later became only in charge of house/furniture

Answer 331

Originally room where meals were taken and all indoor work done

Answer 332

Like tetrastylon but with many more pillars

Answer 333

Atrium where the roof was sloped away from the impluvium so less rain fell into the Impluvium

Answer 334

Atrium where Compluvium and Impluvium were covered

Answer 335

Atrium where the four beams were supported at their intersection by four pillars

Answer 336

Atrium where the roof was formed by two pairs of beams crossing each other at right angles

Answer 337

Beside the temple of Vesta, where the Vestal Virgins lived

Answer 338

Interpreted the flights of birds

Answer 339

A college of priests dedicated to the worship of the emperor, six every year

Answer 340

Simple bath of earlier times

Answer 341

Litter drawn by mules

Answer 342

Two-horse chariot

Answer 343

Seats of honor

Answer 344

Native trumpet shell

Answer 345

Necklace put around the child's neck after the susceptio, originally gold for patricians and leather for plebeians

Answer 346

A grave in which the body was burned

Answer 347

Reed pen used on papyrus

Answer 348

Cared for master's feet

Answer 349

Shoes, worn with all garments classified as Amictus

Answer 350

Shoe of a senator, with straps that wrapped up to the leg

Answer 351

Hot room in the baths

Answer 352

Soldier's half-boots

Answer 353

Finish line at the Circus

Answer 354

Lamp-stand, originally used to hold candles

Answer 355

Wax or tallow Candles

Answer 356

Scroll box

Answer 357

Slave who carried around towels and clothes at the baths

Answer 358

Cotton, used by Romans for linens as well

Answer 359

Starting gates, in the Circus

Answer 360

Slave in charge of punishing other slaves

Answer 361

Two-wheeled carriage used for state functions

Answer 362

Luxurious travelling carriage

Answer 363

Water reservoir inside the city

Answer 364

Style of gladiator fighting where gladiators fought in teams

Answer 365

Chair without arms but with a curved back

Answer 366

Upper mill stone

Answer 367

Public inns, which travellers would only use as a last resort

Answer 368

Broad brimmed hat worn by upper class citizens

Answer 369

Part of a theater where the spectators sat

Answer 370

Slave quarters

Answer 371

Slaves' quarters

Answer 372

Dinner, also term for dinner proper (as opposed to appetizer and dessert)

Answer 373

Feast, 9 days after the funeral

Answer 374

Wedding feast, given at bride's father's house

Answer 375

Empty tomb for lost body

Answer 376

Horse with a hundred Circus victories

Answer 377

Wax, used to seal letter

Answer 378

Another way of wearing the toga for certain sacrifices or official rites, sini raised over the head

Answer 379

Mistress' hairdresser

Answer 380

Two-wheeled uncovered carriage, used for short journeys

Answer 381

Lemon, not grown in Italy until the 3rd Century A.D.

Answer 382

Water clock

Answer 383

What a slave became to his master when he was freed

Answer 384

Plebeian marriage including a fictitious sale of the bride, needed no fewer than 5 witnesses and 1 coin

Answer 385

People related through any blood relationship

Answer 386

Trade-guild

Answer 387

Funeral guilds where poorer people would contribute to bury each other

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