Mau, August, "Pompeii, its Life and Art," translated by Kelsey. This is the best account of the treasures of the buried city that has appeared in English, at once interesting and scholarly.
Gusman, Pierre, "Pompeii, the City, its Life and Art," translated by Simmonds and Jourdain. The very best collection of illustrations, but not so trustworthy in letterpress.
Finally the student should be warned not to neglect a book merely because it happens to be written in a language that he does not read fluently: the very part that he wants may happen to be easy to read, and many of these books contain illustrations that tell their own story independently of the letterpress that accompanies them.
REFERENCES: Marquardt, pp. 1-6; Voigt, 307-311, 386-388; Göll, II. 1-4, 61-65, 187; Pauly-Wissowa, under _adfinitas_, _agnatio_, _cognatio_; Smith, under _cognati_, _familia_, _patria potestas_; Seyffert, under _agnatio_, _cognatio_, _familia_, _manus_; Lübker, under _agnatio_, _cognatio_, _familia_, _manus_, _patria potestas_.
Look up the word _familia_ in Harper's lexicon and notice carefully its range of meanings.
See also Muirhead, "Roman Law," pp. 24-33, and the paragraph on the Quiritian Family in the article on Roman Law by the same writer in the "Encyclopaedia Britannica," Vol. XX.
§17. The Household.--If by our word family we usually understand a group of husband, wife, and children, we may acknowledge at once that it does not correspond exactly to any of the meanings of the Latin _familia_, varied as the dictionaries show these to be. Husband, wife, and children did not necessarily constitute an independent family among the Romans, and were not necessarily members even of the same family. Those persons made up the Roman _familia_, in the sense nearest to its English derivative, who were subject to the authority of the same Head of the House (_pater familias_). These persons might make a host in themselves: wife, unmarried daughters, sons real or adopted, married or unmarried, with their wives, sons, unmarried daughters, and even remoter descendants (always through males), yet they made but one _familia_ in the eyes of the Romans. The Head of such a family--"household" or "house" is the nearest English word--was always _sui iuris_ ("independent," "one's own master"), while the others were _alieno iuri subiecti_ ("dependent").