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(Assuming that by dinner you mean supper) dinner was at 2 p.m. It was the main meal of the day. The Romans had a light lunch at 12 p,m., which was the end of the working day. They then went to the baths and after that they had supper (cena). The Roman day ended at dusk because the working day started at dawn.

The children of the rich ate at the same time and in the same room as their parent (the triclinium, dining room). However, they sat at a table instead of eating on the klinai or lectus, the couches were the adults reclined to eat. Imperial children are reported reclining on the lectus imus below their father, or seated at the ends of the parent's couches, or seated at a separate and more rustic table with other young nobles. The couches were ranked as the highest (lectus summus), the middle (lectus medius) and the lowest (lectus imus);

The poor lived on the upper floor of tenement blocks (insulae) which only had overcrowded sleeping rooms and no cooking facilities. They went there only to sleep and spent their free time at the baths or outdoors and ate at outdoors eating outlets or at simple dining places.

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