03-13-2016, 08:12 PM
Make believe you're rich. You eat dinner and end up spilling some food on your nice clean white shirt. Or make believe its summer and you did something that made you sweat a lot. Do you change the shirt or wait till the end of the week before having a servant wash it?
If you are super rich, scion of a consular family, with land holding net worth exceeding HS 1 million, with numerous homes, villas, scores, if not hundreds, even thousands of family owned slaves, able to spend almost millions of sesterces on furniture, jewelry, art work, special wine, exotic foods, why would a few extra tunics be unreasonable? According to Graham Sumner, tunics could be pretty expensive, but not that expensive that the rich, let alone the middle classes, even the poor, couldn't afford numerous tunics of varying quality and serviceability.
If you are super rich, scion of a consular family, with land holding net worth exceeding HS 1 million, with numerous homes, villas, scores, if not hundreds, even thousands of family owned slaves, able to spend almost millions of sesterces on furniture, jewelry, art work, special wine, exotic foods, why would a few extra tunics be unreasonable? According to Graham Sumner, tunics could be pretty expensive, but not that expensive that the rich, let alone the middle classes, even the poor, couldn't afford numerous tunics of varying quality and serviceability.
