RESTIO - The cognomen of the Antia gens, on a denarius of which the obverse type is the head of a man, remarkable for its muscular, large featured, and hard countenance. This is supposed to be the portrait of the C. Antius Restio who was the author of a sumptuary law, which not only placed the expenses of convivial banquets under restriction, but also prohibited any magistrate or magistrate elect from dining abroad, except at certain people's houses. It is not worthwhile to inquire when this limitation was enacted, for a law so absurd met its fate of remaining unobserved, and even its proposer is said to have never afterwards dined out, for fear of witnessing the violation of his own inhospitality.