vilicus

Updated: June 2, 2025

Columella, writing under the early Empire, urges that the vilicus or overseer should sit at his dinner except on festivals; and Cato the younger would not recline after the battle of Pharsalia for the rest of his life, apparently as a sign that life was no longer enjoyable.

W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler - Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero