ocr: arrangements for living and conducting business, public and private. Nor were the residents burdened with taxes. Possessing no great resources for public revenue, the city used to appeal to its richest and most influential citizens to meet its main needs. The town repaid these patrons with the honor of public office, statues and honoraryinscriptions in the Forum, privileges at the public spectacles and special burial plots for their families. We know that Pompeii owed its large palaestra to the last will of a certain Vibius Vinicio; its amphitheater and the smaller of its two theaters to the g ...
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