Chap. I . of GARDENING, &c. i p 



if the Latin Word cohere be render'd for 

 Drefling and Tilling, which it fignifies as " 

 weJl as Honouring, Refpefting, or Efteeming, 

 *tis more than probable that they were nianu-r/;c'/>«:;«^i 

 al Tillers and Dreflersof their Gardens ^ivAf^f.^''" 

 Villa's 5 and this feems to be very much con- G.^r^/fny. 

 firm'd by the emphaticallnterpofition of the 

 WorAipJi: And thus I fuppofe the En^liJI; 

 Editions of Plivy tranflate it, for I have not 

 lately feen any of them. 



Thefe ancient Romans, 2S \e^ Delecampiu5 -^^^^ f"^^" 

 in his Annotations on tliny has it, livd to-^nLbireV 

 gether in Gardens 5 which does in no- wife m their 

 feem improbable, confidering the Temperature ^^'''^^"^* 

 of that Climate 5 and the fame Editor oh- 

 ferves, that they efteem'd it the neareft Re- 

 femblance to Heaven that could poffibly be 

 found on Earth, if not Heaven itfelf : Thus 

 J£neaj is reprefented by (q) Virgil (an Author 

 very little tainted with the Heathen Super- 

 ftition) after he had pafs'd the Stygian Lake, 

 and prefling on towards the happy Abodes 

 of his reverend Father Anchifes^ in Company 

 with the Sybil: 



, T/j^j took their Way TheDefcnp- 



Where long-extended Plains of Plejfure lay 3 tionofthdr 

 The verdant Fields with thofe of Heaven may vie^^^^^^^* 

 With R.'CsxtiKind^ and with a pirple Sky. 



(e) Delecampius on I Jiny, lib. 1 9. cap. 4. 

 (7) bever.ere locos l*cos & amoena Vireca, 

 Forci'.n.icoruin nemorum fedefque beacas, 

 Ln-gior hie campos /Echer &: lumine veflit 

 Furpareo. Vir£, ^.n?td. 6, v. 6^i* 



C 2 And 



