[Footnote 370: "Coli rura ab ergastulis pessimum est et quicquid agitur a desperantibus," wrote Pliny (_Nat. Hist_. xviii. 36) in the famous passage about latifundia.]
[Footnote 372: See some excellent remarks on this subject in _Ecce Homo_, towards the end of ch. xii. ("Universality of the Christian Republic ").]
[Footnote 373: _The Slave Power_, ch. v., and especially p. 374 foll. A living picture of the mean white may be found in Mark Twain's _Huckleberry Finn_, drawn from his own early experience, particularly in ch. xxi.]
[Footnote 374: "Regum nobis induimus animos," wrote Seneca in a well-known letter about the claims of slaves as human beings, _Ep_. 47.]
[Footnote 375: _Life in Ancient Athens_, p. 55.]
[Footnote 376: For this view of the Lar see Wissowa, _Religion und Kultus der Römer_, p. 148 foll.; and a note by the author in _Archiv fur Religionswissenschaft_, 1906, p. 529.]
[Footnote 378: Cato, _R.R._, ch. ii. init.; Horace, _Epode_ 2. 65; _Sat_. ii. 6. 65.]
[Footnote 379: _Romische Religion_, p. 214.]
[Footnote 380: Or lectulus adversus, i.e. opposite the door; Ascon. ed. Clark, p. 43, a good passage for the contents of an atrium.]
[Footnote 381: See Mau's _Pompeii_, p. 248.]
[Footnote 383: The extent to which this could be carried can be guessed from Sall. _Cat._ 12.]
[Footnote 384: Quintus Cicero, growing rich with Caesar in Gaul, had a fancy for a domus suburbana: Cic. _ad Q. Fr._ iii. I. 7. Marcus tells his brother in this letter that he himself had no great fancy for such a residence, and that his house on the Palatine had all the charm of such a suburbana. His villa at Tusculum, as we shall see, served the purpose of a house close to the city.]
[Footnote 385: A great number of passages about the noise and crowds of Rome are collected in Mayor's _Notes to Juvenal_, pp. 173, 203, 207.]
[Footnote 386: Some interesting remarks on the general aspect of the city will be found in the concluding chapter of Lanciani's _Ruins and Excavations_. For the bore elsewhere than in Rome, see below, p. 256.]
[Footnote 387: _ad Fam_. ii. 12: "Urbem, Urbem, mi Rufe, cole, et in ista luce viva Omnis peregrinatio (foreign travel) obscura et sordida est iis, quorum industria Roma potest illustris esse," etc.]