Nor could young Nature have achieved the birth,
Unless a period of repose so sweet
Had come to pass, betwixt the cold and heat,
And heaven’s indulgence greeted the new earth.”
R. D. Blackmore’s Translation.
[51] As did Columella, i.e., pruna cereola. Pliny calls them cerina.
[52] Freigius’s note: Insularius is equivalent to French concierge.
[53] Livy, book i.
[54] Book v. cap. 4, de Cimone; Ovid, Fasti, book ii.
[55] I.e., the beggar in the house of Ulysses at Ithaca. See Martial, 5, 41, 9.