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POMPEIANA. 253
vows made at the door of the adytum, by the priest,
for all orders of men; after which the people are
dismissed in Greek ; the Xaotg a,<pi<ris,
31 Room, in which were found Priapus, Bacchus, and
Venus, with a magazine of terra cotta lamps, and
implements of sacrifice.
32 Tiie area to which this opened (see Plate 7i) was,
in all probability, one of those open porticoes, or
auditories, where philosophers taught. It must
have been particularly subject to inconvenience from
those whose love of practical jokes could prompt
them to annoy these assemblies from the adjoining
street1.
34 The pulpitum.
Rhetoricians held their schools first in the porticoes of
temples2; for learning was little cultivated in early
times, and slaves were its professors ; gradually un-
derstood, it came into increasing request. The
orator systematically spoke from an elevated spot,
and the children of people of the highest rank were
sent hither for instruction3; although 'Haud tamen
invideas vati quern pulpita pascunt.'
The schools, whether of the Grammaticus, Rhetor, So-
phista, Juraticus, or Scholasticus, were usually in
1 Ex his qui in porticibus spatiabantur lapides in Eumolphum recitantem
miserunt.—Petron.
2 Livy, 3—44.-- Suet, de Illust. Gram.
3 Tacitcs, ile Oral. Nero caused his verses to be publicly recited in
the theatres and porticoes.
vows made at the door of the adytum, by the priest,
for all orders of men; after which the people are
dismissed in Greek ; the Xaotg a,<pi<ris,
31 Room, in which were found Priapus, Bacchus, and
Venus, with a magazine of terra cotta lamps, and
implements of sacrifice.
32 Tiie area to which this opened (see Plate 7i) was,
in all probability, one of those open porticoes, or
auditories, where philosophers taught. It must
have been particularly subject to inconvenience from
those whose love of practical jokes could prompt
them to annoy these assemblies from the adjoining
street1.
34 The pulpitum.
Rhetoricians held their schools first in the porticoes of
temples2; for learning was little cultivated in early
times, and slaves were its professors ; gradually un-
derstood, it came into increasing request. The
orator systematically spoke from an elevated spot,
and the children of people of the highest rank were
sent hither for instruction3; although 'Haud tamen
invideas vati quern pulpita pascunt.'
The schools, whether of the Grammaticus, Rhetor, So-
phista, Juraticus, or Scholasticus, were usually in
1 Ex his qui in porticibus spatiabantur lapides in Eumolphum recitantem
miserunt.—Petron.
2 Livy, 3—44.-- Suet, de Illust. Gram.
3 Tacitcs, ile Oral. Nero caused his verses to be publicly recited in
the theatres and porticoes.