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8 EASTONIA how he had devised this story when he was questioned by his mother. After this the Senate would not allow boys to con1e to the House. While this general education was going on, the boy was learning to read, write and cipher. The boy learned writing by following with a pen, forms of letters engraved on tablets of wood. The Roman boy must have found Arithmetic very hard. It is diiiicult to imagine how a sum in division or multiplication could have been done, with the Roman numerals. Acquaintance with Greek began at a11 early age and we read of a Greek maid being kept to exercise young children in talking the language. Great stress was laid on elocution. The master would read passages aloud and the pupils would repeat them after him and practice the right emphasis. A boy had commonly finished his education when he put on a man's gown. There were two kinds of houses in Rome, domus and insula The domus was a private house generally inhabit- ed by one family and not more than one story above the ground. The iusula was a building of three or four stories, let out in Hats or rooms. The insula was so called be- cause it stood like an island surrounded by streets. The ground floor was usually let out in shops. The upper stories had windows, and sometimes balconies, from which people could shake hands across the narrow streets. These houses were badly bnilt by speculators. They were gen- erally built of wood and were constantly falling or being burnt down. The first meal of the day among the Romans was breakfast, generally taken about the third hour. It was very light, consisting of bread, seasoned with salt or honey, or dipped in wine. School-boys had their breakfast, which consisted of a sort of pancake, before daylight. The next meal was the same as our lunch. This was taken at the sixth hour, and might consist of several courses of fish, flesh and fowl, or be as simple as a piece of bread. The regular l1our for dinner, the chief meal of the day, was the
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