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Credits... C ... Veturius, Cicero on Cassius/Antony, Juvenal on Montanus), yet it is relatively scarce compared with broader charges like luxury, gluttony, and drunkenness – overweight often appears as a consequence rather than the core accusation.
Martial jokes about bathhouse thieves slipping rings from fingers slick with oil, while Juvenal warns that even wealthy Romans avoided wearing jewelry there for fear of its disappearance.
This merging of sacred ceremony and civic showmanship laid the foundation for Rome’s culture of munera, political gifts to the people disguised as religious offerings (Juvenal, Satires).
In an age when power was measured by words as much as by swords, Quintilian shaped Rome’s voice ...Public domain ... Juvenal quipped about wealthy parents begrudging Quintilian his two thousand sesterces, proof of his eminence and prosperity ... L ... ....