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Please note that Mommsen uses the AUC chronology (Ab Urbe Condita), i.e. from the founding of the City of Rome. You can use this reference table to have the B.C. dates
From: The History of Rome, by Theodor Mommsen
Translated with the sanction of the author by William Purdie Dickson
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Page 25
These last may have come by the land-route from the north; but the other objects prove the import of perfumes and articles of ornament of all sorts from the East. Thence came linen and purple, ivory and frankincense, as is proved by the early use of linen fillets, of the purple dress and ivory sceptre for the king, and of frankincense in sacrifice, as well as by the very ancient borrowed names for them (λινόν, -linum-; πορφύρα, -purpura-; σκῆπτρον, --skipon--, -scipio-; perhaps also ἐλέφας, -ebur-; θύος, -thus-). Of similar significance is the derivation of a number of words relating to articles used in eating and drinking, particularly the names of oil,(19) of jugs (ἀμφορεύς, -amp(h)ora-, -ampulla-, κρατήρ, -cratera-), of feasting (κομάζω, -comissari-), of a dainty dish (ὀψώνιον, -opsonium-) of dough (μάζα, -massa-), and various names of cakes (γλυκύς, -lucuns-; πλακοῦς, -placenta-; τυροῦς, -turunda-); while conversely the Latin names for dishes (-patina-, πατάνη) and for lard (-arvina-, ἀρβίνη) have found admission into Sicilian Greek.
19. Comp. I. XIII. Culture of the Olive
The later custom of placing in the tomb beside the dead Attic, Corcyrean, and Campanian vases proves, what these testimonies from language likewise show, the early market for Greek pottery in Italy. That Greek leather-work made its way into Latium at least in the shape of armour is apparent from the application of the Greek word for leather σκῦτος to signify among the Latins a shield (-scutum-; like -lorica-, from -lorum-).
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