Chapter 9 of 28
CHAPTER IX
Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero · W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler
THE DAILY LIFE OF THE WELL-TO-DO
Roman division of the day; sun-dials; hours varied according to the season; early rising of Romans; want of artificial light; Cicero's early hours; early callers; breakfast, followed by business; morning in the Forum; lunch (prandium); siesta; the bath; dinner: its hour becomes later; dinner-parties: the triclinium; drinking after dinner; Cicero's indifference to the table; his entertainment of Caesar at Cumae.