The Smaller Home: Creating The Perfect Fit

You might be offered lunch!" A much longer pause: Antonia's house? Drop in? Lunch? On rare occasions elderly citizens grew so incapable of managing their own affairs that unscrupulous slaves took over their property and ruled like monarchs in their homes, while the senile patrons were locked away in little rooms and starved.В .В .В . Still, Antonia had family to protect her interests. Her son Claudius, though kept from public life, was an author and antiquarian—perfectly fit to supervise if ever his mother's capacities failed. And not Caenis, surely? Caenis could not be capable of abusing an old woman. "Thanks!" the senator contented himself with saying sternly in reply. He went home. He had lunch by himself. * * * There were two hundred public bathhouses in Rome. Fortunately, Phania and Melpomene had mentioned which one Caenis used. He was struggling down the Clivus Tuscus from the main Roman Forum, dragging his tired train of attendants like a magpie's unwieldy tail, when Cornelius Capito came out of the bookshop on the corner, hailed him, and tagged along ...»