Footnotes
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Lord Viſcount Brouncker, Chancellor to the Late Qu. Conſort, now Dowager. The Right Honourable Cha. Montague, Eſq; Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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Si quid temporis à civilibus negotiis quibis totum jam intenderat animum, ſuffurari potuit, colendis agris, priſcos illos Romanos Numam Pompilium, Cincinnatum, Catonem, Fabios, Cicerones, alioſque virtute claros viros imitare; qui in magno honore conſtituti, vites putare, ſtercorare agros, & irrigare nequaquam turpe & inhone ſtum putarunt. In Vit. Plin. 2.
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Ut hujuſmodi hiſtoriam vix dum incohatum, non ante abſolvendam putem.
Exitio terras quam dabit una dies. D. Raius Praefat. Hiſt. Plan.
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Olera a frigidis diſtinct. See Spartianus in Peſcennio. Salmaſ. in Jul. Capitolin.
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Panis erat primis virides mortalibus Herbae;
Quas tellus nullo ſollicitante dabat.
Et modo carpebant vivaci ceſpite gramen;
Nunc epulæ tenera fronde cacumen erant.
Ovid, Faſtor. IV.
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καλουμεν γαρ λαχανα τα ωρος την ημενεραν χρειαν,
Theophraſt. Plant. 1. VII. cap. 7.
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Gen. I. 29.
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Plutarch Sympoſ.
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Salmaſ. in Solin. againſt Hieron. Mercurialis.
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Galen. 2R. Aliment. cap. l. Et Simp. Medic. Averroes, lib. V. Golloc.
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Plin. lib. XIX. c. 4.
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Convictus facilis, fine arte menſa. Mart. Ep. 74.
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Απυνρον τροφυι,
which Suidas calls λαχανα,
Olera quæ cruda ſumuntur ex Aceto. Harduin in loc.
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Plin. H. Nat. lib. xix. cap. 8.
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De R.R. cap. clvii.
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'Εφθος, δοσικυος, απαλος, αλυως, ουρητικος.
Athen.
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Cucumis elixus delicatior, innocentior. Athenæus.
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Eubulus.
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In Lactuca occultatum à Venere Adonin cecinit Callimachus, quod Allegoricè interpretatus Athenæus illuc referendum putat, quod in Venerem hebetiores fiant Lactucis vescentes assiduè.
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Apud Sueton.
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Vopiſeus Tacit. For the reſt both of the Kinds and Vertues of Lettuce, See Plin. H. Nat. l. xix. c. 8. and xx. c. 7. Fernel. &c.
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De Legib.
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Hor. Epod. II.
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De Simp. Medic. L. vii.
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Lib. ii. cap. 3.
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Exoneraturas Ventrem mihi Villica Malvas Attulit, & varias, quas habet hortus, Opes.
Mart. Lib. x.
And our ſweet Poet:
——Nulla eſt humanior herba,
Nulla magis ſuavi commoditate bona eſt,
Omnia tam placidè regerat, blandéquerelaxat,
Emollítque vias, nec ſinit eſſe rudes.
Cowl. Plan. L. 4.
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Cic ad Attic.
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Sueton in Claudi.
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Sen. Ep. lxiii.
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Plin. N.H. l. xxi. c. 23.
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Tranſact. Philoſ. Num. 202.
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Apitius, lib. vii. cap. 13.
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Philoſ. Tranſact. Num. 69. Journey to Paris.
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Pratenſibus optima fungis Natura eſt: aliis male creditur. Hor. Sat. l. 7. Sat. 4.
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Bacon Nat. Hiſt. 12. Cent. vii. 547, 548, &c.
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Gaffend. Vita Peirſ. l. iv. Raderus Mart. l. Epig. xlvi. In ponticum—ſays, within four Days.
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O Sanctas gentes, quibus haec naſcuntur in hortis
Numina****—— Juv. Sat. 15.
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Herodotus.
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ωρα το ραδιως φαινες,
quia tertio à fatu die appareat.
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De diaeta lib. ii. cap. 25.
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De Aliment. Facult. lib. ii.
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Philoſ. Tranſact. Vol. xvii. Num. 205. p. 970.
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Plin. H. Nat. Lib. xix. cap. 3. & xx. c. 22. See Jo. Tzetzes Chil. vi. 48. & xvii. 119.
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Spanheim, De uſu & Praeſt. Numiſ. Diſſert. 4to. It was ſometimes alſo the Reverſe of Jupiter Hammon.
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ουδ αν ειδοιης γε μοι
Τον πλουτον αυτον κ— το Βατ-ου σιλφιον.
Aristoph. in Pluto. Act. iv. Sc. 3.
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Of which ſome would have it a courſer ſort inamoeni odoris, as the ſame Comedian names it in his Equites, p. 239. and 240. Edit. Basil. See likewiſe this diſcuſs'd, together with its Properties, moſt copiouſly, in Jo. Budaeus a Stapul. Comment. in Theophraſt. lib. vi. cap. 1. and Bauhin. Hiſt. Plant. lib. xxvii. cap. 53.
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Vide Cardanum de uſu Cibi.
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Vol. xx.
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Cowley:
Ουδ οσον ιν μαλαχη τε κ— ασφοδελω μεγ ονειαρ
Κρυψαντες γαρ εχουσι θεοι Βιον ανθρωποισι.
Hesiod.
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Concerning this of Inſects, See Mr. Ray's Hiſt. Plant. li. l. cap. 24.
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The poyſon'd Weeds: I have ſeen a Man, who was ſo poyſon'd with it, that the Skin peel'd off his Face, and yet he never touch'd it, only looked on it as he paſs'd by. Mr. Stafford, Philoſ. Tranſact. Vol. III. Num. xl. p. 794.
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Cowley, Garden, Miſcel. Stanz. 8.
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Sapores minime Conſentientes και συμπλεκο-υας ουχι συμφωνους αφας:
Haec deſpicere ingenioſi eſt artificis: Neither did the Artiſt mingle his Proviſions without extraordinary Study and Conſideration: Αλλα μιξας παντα κατα συμφωνιαν.
Horum ſingulis ſeorſum aſſumptis, tu expedito: Sic ego tanquam Oraculo jubeo. —— Itaque literarum ignarum Coquum, tu cum videris, & qui Democriti ſcripta omnia non perlegerit, vel potius, impromptu non habeat, eum deride ut futilem: Ac ilium Mercede conducito, qui Epicuri Canonen uſu plane didicerit, &c. as it follows in the Gaſtronomia of Archeſtratus, Athen. lib. xxiii. Such another Bragadoccio Cook Horace deſcribes
Nec ſibi Coenarum quivis temere arroget artem
Non prius exacta tenui ratione ſaporem.
Sat. lib. ii. Sat. 4.
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Milton's Paradiſe Loſt.
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—— Qui
Tingat olus ſiccum muria vaſer in calice emptâ
Ipſe ſacrum irrorans piper —— Perſ. Sat. vi.
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Dr. Grew, Lect. vi. c. 2. 3.
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Muffet, de Diaeta, c. 23.
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Dr. Grew, Annat. Plant. Lib. l. Sect. iv. cap. l, &c. See alſo, Tranſact. Num. 107. Vol. ix.
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Philoſoph. Tranſact. Vol. III. Num. xl. p. 799.
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Mart. Epig. lib. xi. 39.
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Athen. l. 2. Of which Change of Diet ſee Plut. iv. Sympoſ. 9. Plinii Epiſt. I. ad Eretrium.
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Virg. Moreto.
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Hor. Sat. I. 2. Sat. 4.
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Mart. Ep. l. v. Ep. 17.
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Concerning the Uſe of Fruit (beſsides many others) whether beſt to be eaten before, or after Meals? Publiſhed by a Phyſician of Rochel, and render'd out of French into Engliſh. Printed by T. Baſſet in Fleetſtreet.
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Achilles, Patroclus, Automedon. Iliad. ix. & alibi.
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For ſo ſome pronounce it, V. Athenaeum Deip. Lib. II. Cap. 26 ηδ-
quaſi ηδυσμα,
perhaps for that it incites Appetite, and cauſes Hunger, which is the beſt Sauce.
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Cratinus in Glauco.
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Nat. Hiſt. IV. Cent. VII. 130. Se Ariſt. Prob. Sect. xx. Quaeſt. 36. Why ſome Fruits and Plants are beſt raw, others boil'd, roaſted, &c, as becoming ſweeter; but the Crude more ſapid and grateful.
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Card. Contradicent. Med. l. iv. Cant. 18. Diphilus not at all. Athenaeus.
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Sir Tho. Brown's Miſcel.
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Caule ſuburbano qui ficcis crevit in agris Dulcior,——
——Hor. Sat. l. 2. §4.
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Tranſact. Philoſ. Num. xxv.
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Num. xviii.
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Theſaur. Sanit. c. 2.
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As Delcampius interprets the Place.
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Scaliger ad Card. Exercit. 213.
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Cel. Lib. Cap. 4.
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Plin. Nat. Hiſt. l. 3. c. 12.
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Hanc brevitatem Vitae (ſpeaking of Horſes) fortaſſe homini debet, Verul. Hist. Vit. & Mort. See this throughly controverted, Macrob. Saturn. l. vii. c. v.
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Ariſt. Hiſt. Animal. l. v. c. 14.
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ανομοια σασιαζει
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Hor. Sat. l. II. Sat. 2. Macr. Sat. l. VII.
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Gen. ix.
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Metam. i. Fab. iii. and xv.
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Gen. xi. 19.
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Gen. ix.
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Porphyr. de Abſtin. Proclum, Jambleum, &c.
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Strom, vii.
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Praep. Lv. paſſim.
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Tertul. de Tejun. cap. iv. Hieron. adverſ. Jovin.
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Sen. Epiſt. 108.
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1 Cor. viii. 8. 1. Tim. iv. 1. 3. 14. Rom. ii. 3.
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Has Epulas habuit teneri gens aurea mundis
Et cœnæ ingentis tune caput ipſa ſui.
Semide unque meo creverunt corpora ſucco,
Materiam tanti ſanguinis ille dedit.
Tune neque fraus nota eſt, neque vis, neque fœda libido;
Hæc nimis proles ſæva caloris erat.
Si ſacrum illorum, ſit deteſtabile nomen,
Qui primi ſervæ regne dedere gulæ.
Hinc vitiis patefacta via eſt, morbiſq; ſecutis ſas,
Se lethi facies exeruere novæ.
Ah, fuge crudeles Animantum ſanguine men
Quaſque tibi obſonat mors inimica dapes.
Poſcas tandem æger, ſi ſanus negligis, herbas.
Eſſe cibus nequeunt? at medicamen erunt.
Colci Plaut. lib. 1. Lactuca.
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Gen. ix.
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Ancyra xiv.
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Can. Apoſt. 50.
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Clem. Paedag. Lib. ii. c. l. Vide Prudent. Hymn. χα θημερινων:
Nos Oloris Coma, nos ſiliqua facta legumine multitudo paraveris innocuis Epulis.
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xv. Acts, 20, 29.
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Philo de Vit. Contemp. Joſeph. Antiq. Lib. 13 Cap. 9.
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Hackwell. Apolog.
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Hippoc. de vetere Medicina, Cap. 6, 7.
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2 Tim. iv. 3.
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This, with their prodigious Ignorance. See Mab. des Etudes Monaſt. Part. 2. c. 17.
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Dr. Liſter's Journey to Paris. See L'Apocalyps de Meliton, ou Revelation des Myſteres Cenobitiques.
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Plantarum uſus latiſſimè patet, & in omni vitæ parte occurrit, ſine illis lautè, ſine illis commodè non vivitur, ac nec vivitur omninò. Quæcunque ad victu neceſſaria ſunt, quæcunque ad delicias faciunt, è locupletiſſimo ſuo penu abundè ſubminiſtrant: Quantò ex eis menſa innocentior, mundior, ſalubrior, quam ex animalium cæde & Laniena! Homo certè naturâ animal carnivorum non eſt; nullis ad prædam & rapinam armis inſtructum; non dentibus exertis & ferratis, non unguibus aduncis: Manus ad fructos colligendos, dentes ad mandendos comparati; nee legimus ſe ante diluvium carnes ad eſum conceſſas, &c. Raii Hiſt. Plant. Lib. 1. cap. 24.
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Mart. lib. x. Epig. 44.
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Barl. Eleg. lib. 3.
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Athen. Deip. l. i.
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Cowley, Garden. Stanz. 6.
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Hence in Macrobius Sat. lib. vii. c. 5. we find Eupolis the Comedian in his Æges, bringing in Goats boaſting the Variety of their Food, Βοσκομεθ υλης απο παντοδαωης, ελατης,
&c. After which follows a Banquet of innumerable ſorts.
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Eſa. lxv. 25.
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Bina tunc jugera populo Romano ſatis erat, nullique majorem modum attribuit, quo ſervos paulo ante principis Neronis, contemptis hujus ſpatii Virdariis, piſcinas juvat habere majores, gratumque, ſi non aliquem & culinas. Plin. Hiſt. Nat. lib. xviii. c. 2.
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Interea guſtus elements per omnia quaerunt. Juv. Sat. 4.
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Cicero. Epiſt. Lib. 7. Ep. 26. Complaining of a coſtly Sallet, that had almoſt coſt him his Life.
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Valeriana, That of Lectucini, Achilleia, Lyſimachia, Fabius, Cicero, Lentulus, Piſo, &c. a Fabis, Cicere, Lente, Piſis bene ſerendis dicti, Plin.
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Mirum eſſet non licere pecori Carduis veſci, non licet plebei, &c. And in another Place, Quoniam portenta quoque terrarum in ganeam vertimus, etiam quæ refugeant quadrupeded conſciæ, Plin. Hiſt. Nat. l. xix. c. 8.
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Gra. Faliſc. Gyneget. Waſ. See concerning this Exceſs Macr. Sat. l. 2. c. 9. & ſequ.
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Horti maximè placebant, quia non egerent igni, parceréntque ligno, expedita res, & parata ſemper, unde Acetaria appellantur, facilia concoqui, nee oneratura ſenſum cibo, & quæ minime accenderent deſiderium panis. Plin. Hiſt. Nat. Lib. xix. c. 4. And of this exceeding Frugality of the Romans, till after the Mithridatic War, ſee Athenæus Deip. Lib. 6. cap. 21. Horat. Serm. Sat. 1.
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Nequam eſſe in domo matrem familias (etenim hæc cura Fœminæ dicebatur) ubi indiligens eſſet hortus.
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Alterum ſuccidium. Cic. in Catone. Tiberias had a Tribute of Skirrits paid him.
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Hor. Sat. l. 2. Vix prae vino ſuſtinet palpebras, eunti in conſilium, &c. See the Oration of C. Titius de Leg. Fan. Mac Sat. l. 2. c. 12.
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Milton's Paradiſe, 1. v. ver. 228.
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At victus illa ætas cui ſecimus aurea nomen
Fructibus arboreis, & quas humus educat herbis
Fortunata fuit.——Met. xv.
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Bene moratus venter.
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TAB. II.
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Fœlix, quem miſera procul ambitione remotum,
Parvus ager placide, parvus & hortus, alit.
Præbet ager quicquid frugi natura requirit,
Hortus habet quicquid luxurioſa petit,
Cætera follicitæ ſpecioſa incommoda vitæ
Permittit ſtultis quærere, habere malis.
Cowley, Pl. lib. iv.
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Plin. Athenæus, Macrobius, Bacon, Boyle, Digby, &c.
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