Was Rome Worth the Trouble?

Josh Geller · 19 Jun 2003, 03:21 · from urth-v0306.mbox · original

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From: Josh Geller <brunians at brunians.org>
Subject: Re: (urth) Was Rome Worth the Trouble?
Date: 18 Jun 2003 20:21:40 -0700
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On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 19:45, Andrew Bollen wrote:

> Latro's vision of his home, with his aged father plowing the fields, does=
n't
> suggest a very patrician background, but on the other hand, he has a
> patrician kind of name in Lucius (Lucius Brutus =3D foiunder of the repub=
lic,
> in 509), so perhaps we are to think of an exiled patrician family in redu=
ced
> circumstances?

A Republican patrician family wasn't necessarily wealthy. Cincinnatus,=20
the famous dictator, owned an estate of three acres, where he worked in
the field personally. Later Romans used to go on about it.

=2E

=2E

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