can disting uir four classes of customers:
- those interested in a political career and have the protection of your employer
- businessmen with business interests will be favored by the political influence of the employer, who will surely benefit as a partner.
- poets, philosophers, who survive on handouts employer
- and still be rich, want to be included in the will of the employer as beneficiaries in gratitude for his attentions.
trails As I am many thresholds as a senator, I seem to be a gentleman stopped, because I do not run from one place to another with the first lights of the city and do not get along, tired, thousands of kisses back home. But you [you do] to add new names to the annals purple (1), or to guide you (2) to the nomadic peoples or the Cappadocian, but instead I, who was forced to interrupt half sleep and suffer and endure the mud morning what I seek? When I walk aimlessly I get the shoe is broken and I like a sudden shower of water fat (3 ) and not get my slave, called loudly after take off the robe, and about your slave to my ear and I freeze says: "Letorio invites you to dine with him." "For twenty sesterces? I'm not going, I prefer hunger to have me dinner as a reward and you have a provinc ia and we do not win the same and the same.
1. Consular
2. As governor ordinator.
3. Sewage were thrown through the windows shouting " water goes!".
The day
had to get up very early, sometimes even at night and wearing the toga long distances. Once before door every morning employer meets a motley group of people togadas to perform the rite of the morning greeting, salutatio morning.
The reception given to salutatores depended on their social status, not their order of LLE gada. From the door they were divided into two classes : p et secundae admissionis rhyme. Seneca in his treatise De beneficii s VI, XXXIV, 2 , informs us that you l first to establish an order in salutatio Livio were Graco and Drusus:
The prim eros among us used to divide the crowd of his henchmen were Gracchus and Livius Drusus, receiving some secret, among many others and others listening to them all and so can be said of them that were friends first and seconds, but not true. Friends call him "whose entry into your home has to wait for the wave of the list?
- primae admissionis Friends were renowned characters that could be received individually or in small groups in a closed room apart.
- Secundae admissionis , were the other customers were greeted in the atrium, just parading in front of the employer who occasionally offered his hand, or answered repeating the name of the customer to remember every time the Nomenclator , or did not respond to greetings from clients who called him rex, dominus . The greeting is: dominate bird!, Ave rex!
n also in this book I Marcial, CXII gives a touch of humor, but call for his employer Lord for his stinginess and leaving the treatment King returns to call you by name.
When you do not know, I called my s ene r my king, now I know well: for me and you will be Prisco
customer duties were going to greet the morning, the s alutatio morning and then Deduct i or who was out of the master's house part of their courtship and the assectatio , acompañarl or the rest of the day in their ITS OBLIGATIONS s day. In bian surround the dominus when declaimed or read his poems, praising and applauding everything he did. Marcial III, XLVI tries to get rid of their client obligations enviand or freedom who will be most useful to the employer
You I require, without I see the end, my s customer ervices. I am not, but I am sending my freedom. "It's not the same, I say. "I'll try it more. I could hardly keep the litter, he will. When you find yourself stuck in the crowd, he will step cod azo clean, and I have weak and sensitive sides. If you relate everything in the discourse of reason, I keep silent, but he will bellow a three "great!". You have a process, he will hear her loudly insults, the shame has contained always on my lips the words thick. "Then, you add, you, my friend, do not lend me anything?. "Yes, Candi do, what can not be the l Ibert .
return get their livelihood in the form of invitation for dinner, food to go, or money, or that call Maba sportula . Esportula first was a small basket with supplies that was later replaced by a sum of money, a hundred squares on everything from Nero. Juvenal Sat, I, 120
A row of bunk beds pressed Solicit a hundred rooms,
With this money ate, dressed and warmed as we read in Juvenal Sat, I, 119 : hence removed his robe, hence their shoes and bread and smoke in your home.
In the atrium or lobby them is delivered by a server carrying out this function, in order and under the supervision of the employer, as always some advantage to try to get a esportula of whom was not her employer. ( Juvenal Sat, I )
however Mr. examines first the c to ras and trembles at the thought of you to come instead to seek a false name. Once identified, you have yours. Mandates that the town crier go to the very troyúgenas naming because the threshold would also crush them with us. "Give a magistrate, then the tr Ibun"
The order was established by social class and is a descendant of slaves before the tribune because their income businesses have made a knight and proclaims:
Let them wait, then, the tribunes, to succeed the wealth, not yield to a venerable position who has recently arrived in this city with their feet whitened *
One, take a shower and in the usual tricks, ask for the absent showing in lu gar wife's empty bunk and closed. "This is my Gala" he says, despáchame soon. What do you expect? Remove the head Gala. Do not bother, please. He is resting "
The client not always received sportula , axle MPLO:
- if the employer had no sportula was sick, and the client naturally complained. Martial, Book IX , LXXXV
If ever, Atilio, our Paulo is a bit down, not put it a diet, but gives his guests. You suffer, of course, a lazy unexpected and feigned, but my esp órtula, Paulo, has kicked the bucket.
- sometimes employers were particularly stingy. Marcial 4, 26;
Want to tell you how much I lost, Posthumus, for not having visited in the morning in your home all year? I think about two times thirty or I think about three times twenty sesterces: forgive. A miserable toga, Posthumus, cost me more money.
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- or humiliated clients do not receive after walking long distances, Marcial, V, XXII
(...) And what is even worse, Paulo: that, after overcoming many fatigues and get tired, tell the doorman you're not home. This is the end of my vain effort and sweat my poor robe: it is difficult to be worth well worth the watch Paulo morning. A customer is always helpful friends inhuman. Unless you fall asleep, can not be my pattern .
VI (VII)
On your return of the Libyan peoples, Afro, I wanted to give the "good morning" five days followed: "No time" or "sleep", I was told to return two or three times. Enough is enough. not want, Afro, the "good morning." goodbye.
In contrast sometimes were especially generous mind, in the holidays, births, marriages, making the manly toga, there were esportulas most important. For example the thirty sesterces, about 120 or 480 aces quadrants (from to be five times the usual amount of one hundred squares or 25 aces to six sesterces and an ace) to give the birthday of the patron, Marcial 10, 27
E n your birthday, Diodorus, the Senate sits at your table as a guest and few gentlemen left to join and your generously shared espórtula thirty sesterces by head. However, Diodorus, nobody believes you born.
The espórtula as we have seen in Juvenal was given in the morning in the salutatio . However there is another testimony of Martial Book III, VI being delivered in the afternoon after the bath.
Goodbye and , poor little hundred quadrant s, a donation he made to his bathers soaked weary customers. What do you think, folks hungry? It espórtulas No more proud of a pattern. "There's no pretense, it's a salary you have to give."
customer This easement was never owned their time and Marcial XI, XXIV prevented him from writing his books
While accompany you and you back your house while your ears ready quackery and I applaud everything you say and do, how many verses could be born, Labulo! Do not you think that is a disservice if you read Rome, seeking the stranger, not ridicule the gentleman, he knows by heart the senator, praised the attorney, the skinned poet, dies because of you? Is this true, Labulo? Who is going to tolerate that for that to take you a greater number of poor little togados smaller number of my books? In almost thirty days now, I barely finished one page! This is what happens when the poet does not want to have dinner at home.
In Juvenal's Satire I see a summary of a customer journey that Dining at home just a few cabbages
The day itself is distributed according to a nice program: the esportilla, then Apollo forum law expert and triumphant images, including a nobody, to whose portrait not only allowed to take a leak , has dared to put their titles of "Egyptian" and "Arabarca." Are removed from their old and tired hallways customers abandoning their wishes, although the hope of an invitation to dinner is the last thing you lose, have to buy the wretched his cabbages and firewood. Meanwhile devour most exquisite mountain and sea on the pattern of these people and it s Nly will empty the table between backups ...
But although it had been invited to dinner, might not have been well treated on the basis of what Marcial tells us VI, LXVIII, and I, LX
I invite you for a hundred squares and dinner based on well. "I invite, Sixth, dinner, or envious?
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Being invited to dinner and not as before , as a customer paid why not I serve the same dinner that you? You take oysters fattened in Lake Lucrino, I sip a mussels when they had cut the mouth. You have fungi tickets I take mushrooms pigs; t ú you fight with a turbot, however I with a bream. To you I filled a golden dove d and huge thighs to get me a Picaza dead in her cage. Why have dinner without you, Pontus, having dinner with you? serve something the disappearance of the espórtula: dine as well.
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