Scaurus

And some even featured little advertising slogans, such as “the flower of garum, made from the mackerel, a product of Scaurus, from the shop of Agathopus.”

Mad Men–Roman Style 2008

The house overlooked the Mediterranean, and as Wallace-Hadrill told me, “from here, Scaurus could see his ships sailing off to Spain, carrying his fish sauce.”

Mad Men–Roman Style 2008

The terracotta vessels that bore his fish sauces at Pompeii, for example, often carried a painted inscription, Ex Officina Scaurus, “from the shop of Scaurus.”

Mad Men–Roman Style 2008

As early as the 1st - century AD, wealthy Roman merchants had mastered branding and marketing, as I discovered while exploring the palatial residence of Umbricius Scaurus at Pompeii in the company of British archaeologist Andrew Wallace-Hadrill.

Mad Men–Roman Style 2008

Only Dellius, Cinna, Scaurus, and a grandson of the slain Crassus continued in his train to Antioch.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

“Peregrinus has had letters from Gnaeus Cinna, Scaurus, Titius, and Poplicola,” Perdita said: Peregrinus was her husband.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

As a matter of fact, Scaurus, when he was here, would stay nowhere else, although he has a family place on the seashore.

Satyricon 2007

Gaius Fonteius, Poplicola, Sosius, Titius and young Marcus Aemilius Scaurus were all in Antioch, but this new Mark Anthony hardly noticed them any more than he did Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus when he turned up, his governorship of Bithynia just too out of things for such a busybody of a man.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

“Peregrinus has had letters from Gnaeus Cinna, Scaurus, Titius, and Poplicola,” Perdita said: Peregrinus was her husband.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Gaius Fonteius, Poplicola, Sosius, Titius and young Marcus Aemilius Scaurus were all in Antioch, but this new Mark Anthony hardly noticed them any more than he did Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus when he turned up, his governorship of Bithynia just too out of things for such a busybody of a man.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007