CC 302: Introduction to Ancient Rome

Greetings

• Salvete, Salve
• Quid agitis?, Quid agis? optime, bene, satis bene, male

From the history of the Monarchy and the Republic

• Romam a principio reges habuerunt (Tacitus)
• vae victis (Livy)
• Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque (Ennius)
• Carthago delenda est (Cato the Elder)

From Roman Comedy

• prandi, potavi, scortum accubui (Plautus)
• Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto (Terence)
  

From Cicero's First Speech Against Catiline

• O tempora, o mores!

Catullus, Poem 85

• odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris
  nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
  

Lucretius, De rerum natura 3.830

• nihil igitur mors est

Words attributed to some Julio-Claudian emperors

• Festina lente (a favorite motto of Augustus)
• O homines ad servitutem paratos! (allegedly said by Tiberius about Roman senators)
• Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet! (supposedly said by Caligula)
  

From Livy's Ab urbe condita

• ego me etsi peccato absolvo, supplicio non libero (Lucretia)
• et facere et pati fortia Romanum est (Mucius Scaevola)

From the Aeneid

• arma virumque cano
• sunt lacrimae rerum
• timeo Danaos et dona ferentis
• tu... Romane... memento...
  parcere subjectis et debellare superbos
  

From Horace

• carpe diem (from Odes 1.11)
• nunc est bibendum (from Odes 1.37)
• dulce et decorum est pro patria mori (from Odes 3.2)
  

Phrases connected with Nero

• occidat, dum imperet (from Tacitus)
• ventrem feri (from Tacitus)
• Quis negat Aeneae magna de stirpe Neronem?
  sustulit hic matrem, sustulit ille patrem
  (from Suetonius)
• qualis artifex pereo (from Suetonius)

Petronius (probably ca. 26 CE- 66 CE):

• arbiter elegantiae (Tacitus' description of Petronius)
• cave canem (on fresco outside Trimalchio's door)

From Juvenal

• difficile est saturam non scribere
• quid Romae faciam? mentiri nescio
• panem et circenses
• mens sana in corpore sano

Regarding some emperors

• Evulgato imperii arcano (Tacitus on the deposition of Nero)
• Puto deus fio (allegedly Vespasian's last words)
• Felicior Augusto, melior Traiano (Senate's wishes for new emperors)

Some Graffiti from Pompeii

• C. Pumidius Dipilus Heic Fuit
• Augii Amat Allotenum
• Philiiros spado

Roman Life and Society

• Praesens divus habebitur Augustus (Horace)
• Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus (Cicero).

On architecture

• Urbem latericium invenit, marmoream reliquit (Augustus)
• Roma domus fiet (said of Nero's domus aurea)
• M. AGRIPPA L. F. COS. TERTIUM FECIT

On Rome's Last Centuries and Legacy

• In hoc signo vinces
• Roma aeterna
• Disciplina Praesidium Civitatis

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