By Julia Darrow Cowles
Throughout the tale of Marcus and his development to manhood within the remaining days of the Roman Republic, we find a lot approximately existence and customs in old Rome. We accompany Marcus as he learns his classes in class, joins his father on a visit to the Senate, will pay a trip to his father's farm, and watches the triumph of a triumphant normal. The crowning second comes whilst Marcus assumes the toga, the mark of a Roman citizen. compatible for a long time eight and up.
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Lucius, who was only seven, sat with the beginners, for this was the age at which the boys of Rome entered school. There were no desks in the room. The teacher, or master, sat in a chair upon a raised platform. Each of the boys had a bench, with a stool for his feet so that his knees could be used for a desk. After all were in their places, the master left his chair and, going from one pupil to another, wrote a maxim at the top of each boy's tablet. The tablet was not a block of paper, for no one had heard of paper in those days.
Oh," added Lucius readily, "Mamma is a noble princess that Gaius, the general, met and married; you girls are her handmaidens, and I—oh," ended Lucius with a laugh, "I am her slave," and he flung his arms impetuously about her neck, while Gaia gathered him into her arms. " said Terentia. The road that they travelled that day was a quiet one. Now and then a foot-runner, or a messenger on horseback would meet them, or they would be passed by a two-wheeled cart with a high seat and a single horse to draw it.
A girl should know how to read and write, and keep simple accounts, as you are learning to do; but the most important lessons for her to learn are how to care for a household, how to spin and weave, and above all, how to hold the love and honor of her family. " "We had a new fashion set us at school to-day," said Marcus with a laugh. " "I am afraid," said Gaius severely, "that Faustus will some day be sorry for his foolish following of these new Greek fashions. Certainly Titus is able to walk, and need not be carried to school by slaves as though he were a great noble, or a lame old man.