![]() ![]() Juvenal identifies some for us as the lactoria columna or the spurci lacus ( VI.603). Places within the city became known as sites for the exposure of unwanted children. When the decision was made not to rear an infant, the child would be left at a location to await its fate. Read the blog and consider the choices facing Roman parents and what this practice indicates about Roman culture. In this blog, we set out the evidence for you, so that you may consider how the Romans may have thought about this practice. The evidence is far from straight-forward (as you will see from the links), but we can piece together some of the reasoning of people 2000 years ago. It seems so alien that a civilization as complexed as Rome might also contain such an aspect. The question as to why parents might expose a new-born child has perplexed people living in the 20 th and 21 st centuries.
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