[50] De Re Rust. c. 1.
[51] It is still thought so in France, Fée says, and nothing has tended more than this notion to the depreciation of the prices of wine.
[52] Hence the usual Latin name, “prata.”
[53] “Si sat bene.” Cicero, De Officiis, B. ii. n. 88, gives this anecdote somewhat more at length.
[54] De Re Rust. c. 2.
[55] “Alienâ insaniâ frui.” We have a saying to a similar effect: “Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.”
[56] “Frons domini plus prodest quam occipitium.” See Cato, De Re Rust. c. 4; also Phædrus, B. iv. Fab. 19.
[57] Cato, c. 3. Varro and Columella give the same advice.
[58] See B. iii. c. 9.
[59] Sylla the Fortunate, the implacable enemy of Marius.