A Sad Occasion Culture

Question 1

pompa

Answer 1

elaborate funeral procession

Question 2

lucernae

Answer 2

lamps that surrounded the body in the atrium of the house

Question 3

neniae

Answer 3

dirges

Question 4

lictores

Answer 4

public attendants carrying symbols of office

Question 5

fasces

Answer 5

bundles of rods carried by the public attendants

Question 6

laudatio

Answer 6

speech of praise made in Forum in honor of the deceased

Question 7

rogus

Answer 7

funeral pyre body was placed on

Question 8

manes

Answer 8

spirit of dead man

Question 9

dis manibus

Answer 9

“to the divine shades,” inscription found on tomb