CLST 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Josephus, Gladiator, Roman Engineering
15 Nov 2017
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Used by the clothing cleaners to clean togas. In the spanish, italian, and french speaking world, the word toilet comes from vespasian. After financial stability was restored, vespasian was able to begin construction of the. The empire of rome was solid enough that in a matter of a few years, a depleted treasury was more than overflowing. In ad 73, vespasian and his son titus, the consuls of the year, held a census. In that position, their supporters were rewarded with advances into the senate or within the senate - patrician status. If you weren"t a senator and you were prominent and you became the senator, you would get bumped up to patrician status (if you weren"t already) Patricians were getting more scarce than they were before. Within a very short time, vespasian had refilled the imperial coffers with added taxes and remission of past exemptions. Titus disagreed with vespasian"s decision to tax public toilets.
