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CHAPTER XLIX

. INNS AND WINESHOPS

_Roman inns_: FRIEDLAENDER, Sittengeschichte Roms, Edit. 5, vol. 2, pp. 33-39, Edit. 7, vol. 1, pp. 311-325.

_Inscriptions_: caupones, copones, C. I. L. IV., see Index, p. 256; of Sittius, C. I. L. IV. 806, 807 (for the picture, see HELBIG, Wandgemaelde, no. 1601); of the inn, Ins. VII, XII, C. I. L. IV. 2144-2164.

_Pictures illustrating the life of the wineshop_ [p. 403]: FIORELLI, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 2, p. 204; Museo Borb., vol. 4, pl. A, vol. 5, pl. 48; HELBIG, Wandgemaelde, nos. 1487, 1504.

_Selling of wine mixed with water_ [p. 404]: a stock charge against ancient innkeepers; Trimalchio (Petr. Sat. XXXIX) makes out that these were born under the sign Aquarius, 'the waterer.' For the wineshop in which the graffito was found, see MAU, Bull. dell' Inst., 1874, pp. 252-256.

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