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Lares

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Household god, protector of family and household

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Penates

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Household god, protector of pantry, storehouse

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Lararium

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Shrine found in atrium or peristyle used to place offerings to Lares and Genius

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Genius

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Man in toga or snake, empowers ‘manhood’ to father his children

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Forum

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public open space for commercial, religious and political purposes

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Thermae

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public baths

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Tepidarium

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Warm bath in thermae

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Caldarium

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hot bath in thermae

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cella

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most central part of a temple

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compluvium

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central ‘window’ like opening in the roof, providing light

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compluvium

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central ‘window’ like opening in the roof, providing light

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cubiculum

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small bedrooms centred around the atrium

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curia

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senate house

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decumanus

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east-west road

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cardo

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north-south

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Domus

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family house, inward facing

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epitaph

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inscription on tombstone

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equites

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plebeian nobles, social class, rich enough to own a horse

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forica

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public toilets

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frigidarium

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cold bath

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impluvium

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found under compluvium, collected rainwater into a cistern under house

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insulae

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housing for the lower class, ‘apartment’ like buildings

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Liberti

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freedman (free slave)

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manumission

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legal freedom from slavery

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necropolis

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cemetery, found only outside Rome walls

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Palaestra

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gymnasium/courtyard for exercise, sometimes in thermae

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Patrician

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rich aristocracy

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Plebeian

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normal, lower class people

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Pontifex

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highest priest

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salutatio

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morning greetings to patron

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Tabernae

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shops in front of house

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tablinium

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office/study

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tabularium

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official records office

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thermopolia

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fast food restaurant

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potestas and manus

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absolute power over someone

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dignitas

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dignity

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auctoritas

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authority

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gens

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family name/bloodline/ lineage

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pomperium

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the sacred boundary around a city, no imperium allowed inside

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strigil

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a curved tool used to scrape oil off the body

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sudatorium

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sweating room (like sauna)

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