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Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 24 (ed. Frank Gardener Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University), chapter 16 (search)
into their houses. Feasts had been made ready by all in the atriaThus the good things could be seen through the open door, as in XXV.xii. 15: apertis ianuis in propatulo epulati sunt. of their houses. To these they invited the soldiers andB.C. 214 implored Gracchus to allow the soldiers to feast. And Gracchus did permit them, provided they all feasted in the open, each before the door of his house. Everything was brought out. Wearing capsThe pilleus was evidence of freedom, as was the lana alba. or white woollen headbands the volunteers feasted, some reclining, and some standing served and ate at the same time. This seemed to deserve the order Gracchus gave on his return to Rome for a representation of that day of festivity to be painted in the Temple of Liberty which his father, with money yielded by fines, caused to be built on the Aventine and dedicated.The closing words are possibly copied from an inscription on the temple. The father was consul in 238 B.C.