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Updated: June 29, 2025
In the old days of household simplicity the meals were taken in the atrium, the husband reclining on a lectus, the wife sitting by his side, and the children sitting on stools in front of them. The slaves too in the olden time took their meal sitting on benches in the atrium, so that the whole familia was present.
The word here rendered "palace" may indeed have that meaning, for we know that among the early converts were "they of Caesar's household;" but these were in all probability if not certainly Jews of the lowest rank, who were, as we know, to be found among the hundreds of unfortunates of every age and country who composed a Roman familia.
And when, probably by a gradual change, /1/ the paterfamilias came to be regarded as owner, instead of a simple manager of the family rights, the nature and continuity of those rights did not change with the title to them. The familia continued to the heirs as it was left by the ancestor.
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