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[ Hortulorum, in the plural number. This term, often found in Roman authors, not inaptly describes the vast number of little inclosures, consisting of vineyards, orchards of fig-trees, peaches, etc., with patches of tillage, in which maize, legumes, melons, pumpkins, and other vegetables are cultivated for sale, still found on small properties, in the south of Europe, particularly in the neighbourhood of towns.]
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[ Suetonius has quoted these lines in the earlier part of his Life of Terence. See before p. 532, where they are translated.]
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[ Juvenal was born at Aquinum, a town of the Volscians, as appears by an ancient MS., and is intimated by himself. Sat. iii. 319.]
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[ He must have been therefore nearly forty years old at this time, as he lived to be eighty.]
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[ The seventh of Juvenal’s Satires.]