What Is It? Flashcards by Lorraine West

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Oeci

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Banquet halls

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Palaestra

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Exercise area in baths

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Solium

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Straight, high-backed chair with arms

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Clepsydra

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Water clock

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Dies lustricus

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Naming day

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Sinus

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Fold in toga used as pocket

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Paludamentum

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A general’s cloak

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Cathedra

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Armless chair with curved back used by magistrates

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Sculponeae

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Wooden shoes

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Vigiles

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Firemen, watchmen

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Fullones

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Laundry men

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Contubernium

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Slave marriage

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Ducenarius

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Horse that had won two hundred races

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Caepe

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Onion

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Far

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Spelt; hardy wheat

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Umbrae

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Uninvited guests

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Proconsul

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Governor of a province (as opposed to consul - a head of Rome)

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Praetorium

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General’s tent

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Tesserae

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Multiple meanings: dice, passwords, tickets, cut pieces of glass for mosaic

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Consul Suffectus

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Consul elect

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Focus/Foci

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Torch(es)

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Amurca

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Dark bitter fluid from first pressing of olives

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Fritillus

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Dice box

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Stylus

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Tool for writing on wax

Calamus

Pen

Atramentum

Ink

Cera

Wax used for making letters

Volumen

Scroll

Lac

Milk

Rostra

Speaker's platform in Forum

Amphora

Large jar

Vitellus

Calf

Acetum

Vinegar

Tali

Knucklebones (dice)

Mensa Delphica

Table with three legs

Solaria

Sundials

Macellum

Store

Odeum

Building for musical performances

Diptycha

Two wax tablets held together with leather strips

Capsa

Wooden box for storing bundles of parchment rolls

Abolla

Heavy woolen cloak associated with philosophers

Lacerna

Common cloak

Trabea

Cloak worn by augurs

Palla

Shawl used by women

Fibula

Brooch

Agitatores

Chariot drivers

Naumachiae

Mock naval battles

Navis codicaria

Ships for carrying goods

Cunei

Sections of seats in the amphitheater

Ludi scaenici

Dramatic interpretations; plays