Shop-Keeper And Lady With A Dog: reconstructed funerary monument from Lillebonne (second century A.D.). The shopkeeper is shown standing behind his counter
with glass flagons and boxes on the shelves above him and tools hanging on the wall behind him. The lady (his wife?) holds her pet dog in her left hand and offers it
a tidbit with her right.
A man who turned his back on politics to pursue commercial interests might be spoken of as following a life of quies, that is, the freedom to make money without