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The Roman Family: Models and Mentalities

S.D.—that the plural is simply a reference to the town cemetery. The lightening bolt is likely to have damaged more than one tomb and this would explain the plural much more economically. Given that cemeteries were common places for the secretion of curses, it is more than possible that quite a few defixiones came to light at this moment. Tensions between master and slave are, as S.D. notes, attested on other defixiones. It is perhaps intriguing that the curse was directed against the ordo as a whole rather than a particular magistrate. The most obvious reason for the curse must have been a refusal to manumit the slave concerned. S.D. believes that the majority of serui publici performed menial tasks. This raises a question with which he does not deal. If an unnamed perpetrator of the curse was a typical seruus publicus, is the inscription evidence of substantial literacy amongst the lower orders of an Italian town? As can be seen therefore, the collection is extremely wide-ranging, but perhaps that too is its weakness. A lack of thematic content means its appeal to the private purchaser will be limited.