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© Copyright Vittorio Carvelli 2016    © Copyright Vittorio Carvelli 2016 warning: this section features nudity, violence, explicit sexuality and language, in images and text - do not view if you may be offended   to view images full size open in a new tab © Copyright Vittorio Carvelli 2016 this Chapter is at present under construction After the funerals and the Munera there was a distinct sense of relief at the villa in Baiae. Marble Cinerary Urn © Copyright Vittorio Carvelli 2016 Preparations were then made by Novius and Terentius for the Cēna Novendiālis (Feast of the Nine Days) - to be held at the villa. In one of the Peristyle gardens in the villa, (in the absence of the Mausoleum to be built at a later date) a temporary altar was erected, on which was placed a marble cinerary urn, (designed and carved in Neapolis) containing the ashes of the late Dominus. At the Cēna (feast), prayers and a libation would be made to the Manes at the temporary altar, and that would conclude all the

© Copyright Vittorio Carvelli 2016 © Copyright Vittorio Carvelli 2016 warning: this section features nudity, violence, explicit sexuality and language, in images and text - do not view if you may be offended   to view images full size open in a new tab this Chapter is at present under construction (greatly slowed down by Google's implementation of its new policy regarding Picasa) Caencenatio The Dinner Party - On the evening of the funeral there was a quiet dinner party (what the Romans often referred to as a 'caencenatio' - not quite as grand as a 'convivium) in the private triclinium (dining room) of Marcus' apartments. Marcus had invited (obviously) Titus, along with Petronius, Terentius, Novius, Nicander (who was careful to say nothing), and, surprisingly perhaps, Demetrius. Glaux, who had just recently woken up, joined the party, and made friends with Titus, mainly because Titus was sharing little slivers of meat with the greedy, but still very polite little ow