AFAIK, we don’t have a lot of “daily life” text from early Roman times. We have architecture and stone/tile art, from which we learn a lot about culture. And we

AFAIK, we don’t have a lot of “daily life” text from early Roman times. We have architecture and stone/tile art, from which we learn a lot about culture. And we have major milestones where those justified documentation. “Soldiers: how you get paid” is not likely in any of what we have. And it may not have been written; literacy was not high.