Did patronage still serve a useful purpose in first century Rome (Latin)

Title: Did patronage still serve a useful purpose in first century Rome (Latin)
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Did patronage still serve a useful purpose in first century Rome (Latin)

Did patronage still serve a useful purpose in first century Rome? “In the old days clients were guests. But now Roman citizens in togas wait in crowds and scramble on their patron’s doorway for their tiny allowance. ” Patronage in its original form benefited both patron and client. One important part of patronage was the salutatio where clients paid their respects to their patron in order to a ‘dole’ (sportula). Patrons expected their clients to …showed first 75 words of 2320 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 2320 total…Satires I Martial, Epigrams 5.22 Juvenal, Satires I Pliny Letters 1.19 Pliny Letters 6.23 Pliny Letters 6.23 Tacitus, Annals 6.13 Pliny Letters 10.5 Pliny the Younger, Letters 4.13.3-10 Pliny Letters 8.24 Seneca the Younger, An essay about the Brevity of life 14.4 Martial, Epigrams 7.20 Martial, Epigrams 10.49 Pliny Letters 2.5-6 Seneca the Younger, letters 19.4 David Taylor ‘Roman Society’ Jerome Carcopino ‘Daily life in Ancient Rome’ Paoli ‘Roman Life and Customs’ Epic Web Pages ‘http://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/users/gorney/patronage’ Word count: 1444 (excluding quotations)

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