Roman Dependents: Slaves and Clients

Question 1

What was a group of 10 house slaves?

Answer 1

Decuria

Question 2

Who said that an individual could have up to 10 and 20 thousand slaves?

Answer 2

Athenaeus

Question 3

Under what legal official were slave sales conducted?

Answer 3

Quaestor

Question 4

What was the symbol of a sale under a public official?

Answer 4

A hasta

Question 5

Phrase meaning “to be sold into slavery”.

Answer 5

Sub hasta venire

Question 6

What did captives and victims of sacrifice wear on their heads?

Answer 6

Garlands

Question 7

Who was the seller of slaves?

Answer 7

Mangones

Question 8

What was the term for slave marriage?

Answer 8

Contubernium

Question 9

What was the term for a slave born in the house?

Answer 9

Vernae

Question 10

What signified that a slave was imported?

Answer 10

Chalked feet, they also had a tax

Question 11

Under what official were slave auctions held?

Answer 11

Aediles

Question 12

How could you distinguish a slave from the East?

Answer 12

They had pierced ears

Question 13

What was the term for the scroll around a slave’s neck that identified the slave’s character?

Answer 13

Titulus

Question 14

What was the term for a slave sold for immoral purposes?

Answer 14

Leno

Question 15

Who were the people who took care of public buildings?

Answer 15

Servi publici

Question 16

What was a slave in charge of latifundia?

Answer 16

Vilicus

Question 17

What was a slave in charge of slave women who made wool clothes?

Answer 17

Vilica

Question 18

What was a butler?

Answer 18

Atriensis

Question 19

Who purchased goods and kept records of the purchases?

Answer 19

Procurator or Dispendator

Question 20

Who was the door keeper?

Answer 20

Ostiarius or ianitor

Question 21

Who was a hairdresser?

Answer 21

Ornator

Question 22

Who was a barber?

Answer 22

Tonsor

Question 23

Who was a slave who cared for feet or made shoes?

Answer 23

Calceator

Question 24

Who was the slave who was the hair dressers for the mistress?

Answer 24

Ciniflones or Cinerarii

Question 25

Who was the slave who cleared the way for the master?

Answer 25

Anteambulones

Question 26

Who would accompany a master back from parties?

Answer 26

Adversitores

Question 27

Who would remind a master of the names of people?

Answer 27

Nomenclator

Question 28

Who was the slave trained to keep the togas folded when not in use?

Answer 28

Vestiplicus

Question 29

What was the power of the master over the slaves?

Answer 29

Dominium

Question 30

What was the property of a slaves?

Answer 30

Peculium

Question 31

Term for the slave of a slave?

Answer 31

Vicarius

Question 32

Who was a slave who took care of a yoke of bullocks?

Answer 32

Bubulcus

Question 33

What were rods and sticks for punishment made of?

Answer 33

Elm or ulmi

Question 34

What was the lash of rawhide made of cords/thongs of leather?

Answer 34

Scutica

Question 35

What was a whip and bits of bone or metal?

Answer 35

Flagrum

Question 36

Who was the culprit who carried on his shoulders a log of wood shaped like a V?

Answer 36

Furcifer

Question 37

Who was branded with an F on the forehead, sometimes had a metal collar around his neck?

Answer 37

Fugitivus or Fugitive

Question 38

What were the slave quarters?

Answer 38

Cellae familiae

Question 39

What was a prison for slaves to work enchained?

Answer 39

Ergastulum

Question 40

What was the punishment for a slave who murdered or tried to murder their master?

Answer 40

Crucifixion

Question 41

What was the act of freeing a slave before a witness?

Answer 41

Manumission

Question 42

What was the cap of liberty?

Answer 42

Pilleus

Question 43

What was the greeting to his patron in the atrium of the patron’s house?

Answer 43

Salutatio

Question 44

What was the basket of cold food given to the client by the patron?

Answer 44

Sportula

Question 45

What were the tokens of hospitality exchanged?

Answer 45

Tesserae hospitales