CLAS 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Twelve Tables, Spolia, Piazza Navona

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1000
• Professor: John Walsh

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Ad digitum an action by an official referee in a gladiatorial contest, in which he interrupts the fight by stepping in between the two opponents and raising his finger. Aedile a magistracy that involved maintaining the physical infrastructure of the city and overseeing the mounting of games. As such, serving as an aedile could help one win a higher magistracy, even though the office was outside of the cursus honorum. Two plebedian aediles and two curule aediles were elected annually. Aetiological elegy poetry that is written in elegiac metre and explores the origin of things. Amicitia friendship ; a term that often refers to a political alliance between two parties, either individuals or rome and another community. In the latter case, the relationship was often unequal, with rome being the greater power. Ampitheatre an elliptical theatre lined with banks of seating on all sides, creating an oval floor (the arena) where activities and performances took place.