[1085]. De Re Rust. 3. “Ita ædifices, ne villa fundum quærat, neve fundus villam.” Cf. Colum. De Re Rust. i. 4. It may here by the way be observed that, during the flourishing periods of Roman agriculture, farms were generally rather small than large. Plin. Hist. Nat. viii. 21. Schulz. Antiq. Rustic. § vii.
[1086]. Schol. Aristoph. Nub. 45.
[1087]. Philost. Icon. ii. 26. p. 851.
[1088]. Cf. Athen. iv. 38.
[1089]. Walp. Mem. i. 281.
[1090]. Aristoph. Nub. 45, seq. et Schol.—Schol. Eq. 803.
[1091]. Plat. De Legg. vii. t. viii. p. 40. Aristoph. Lysist. 18, sqq.
[1092]. Aristoph. Acharn. 272. Vesp. 824. Pac. 1138. Thesm. 286, seq. Suid. v. Θρᾶττα. t. p. 1330. a.
[1093]. Ἐπὶ τῆς ἑστίας τρέφουσι χοίρους.—Schol. Aristoph. Vesp. 844. Lysist. 1073, Poll. ix. 16.
[1094]. Odyss. τ. 536.