Lectures on Roman husbandry, delivered before the University of Oxford; comprehending such an account of the system of agriculture, the treatment of domestic animals, the horticulture &c., pursued in ancient times, as may be collected from the Scriptores rei rusticae, the Georgics of Virgil, and other classical authorities, with notices of the plants mentioned in Columella and Virgil; . der to holdout inducements not only to the owner himself,but also to his wife, for passing her time there. Quamobrem amcenitate aliqua demerenda erit,Uti patientius moretur cum viro. What the Romans understood
Lectures on Roman husbandry, delivered before the University of Oxford; comprehending such an account of the system of agriculture, the treatment of domestic animals, the horticulture &c., pursued in ancient times, as may be collected from the Scriptores rei rusticae, the Georgics of Virgil, and other classical authorities, with notices of the plants mentioned in Columella and Virgil; . der to holdout inducements not only to the owner himself,but also to his wife, for passing her time there. Quamobrem amcenitate aliqua demerenda erit,Uti patientius moretur cum viro. What the Romans understood by these expres-sions, may be in some degree gathered from thedescriptions which other writers have given usof the country-houses about the same period. In the time of Valerius Maximus, the mansionsthemselves are said to have covered more groundthan was on the estates of some of the ancientPatricians. In the present age, that writer says, men think themselves crampt for room, whosehouses are not more extensive than the wholeproperty of Cincinnatus. Lucullus, Pliny informs us, fell under thechastisement of the censors, because the ampli-tude of his villa was such, as, compared with thesize of the estate annexed, that he had moreground to sweep than to plough. And Pliny the younger, in describing his Lau-rentine villa1, which lie praises as being well b Lib. 2. Ep. xvii. , &— C*AUli ICJU* <rf. iL jLc^M PLAN OF PLINYS LAURENTINE VILLA. (PUw, 2*. I, £f if ] ROMAN HUSBANDRY. 47 adapted for all purposes of use and convenience,but, according to the ideas of that period, asneither sumptuous nor extravagant, details asuite of apartments of such extent as impressesus with an exalted notion of Roman luxury inthis respect. The following are a few of the principal de-tails. On entering, he says, you find yourself in aplain but not a mean hall (Atrium); and fromthis you proceed through ranges of porticos of anoval form inclosing a small but cheerful court(area), which a
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