To: SunkenCiv
The House of Loreius Tiburtinus . . .
1. Couldn't have been a very important person. Important Romans had three names, as in Gaius Julius Caesar.
2. Seems ole Loreius isn't taking care of his property.
3. With Loreius for a name, I'll bet he was in plenty of fights in the third grade with guys who made fun of him.
17 posted on
12/24/2011 11:35:30 AM PST by
righttackle44
(I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine)
To: righttackle44
He may have been non-Roman; three names was part of the whole putting-on-airs characteristic of the three dozen or so patrician families, and caught on later with the middle class.
21 posted on
12/25/2011 4:16:24 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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To: righttackle44
I tried and tried, but couldn’t come up with a pic of another Pompeiian house; it’s tiny and narrow (must have been the space left between the adjacent homes) but the entire front facade is a grand front door.
23 posted on
12/25/2011 4:54:21 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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