5a The History Chap, i. 



The Ox the Saddle ash, the Afs the Vlongh 5 

 Let all (that's hefi) pursue the Arts they kvovc, 

 Creech'^ Horace, Epift. 14. Lib. i, 



0audm the EJttiperor, of no great Cha- 

 rader as to his Government, is by (p) Sueto- 

 nius recorded to have fpent his leifure Hours 

 fometimes in his Gardens 5 and at other 

 times in the Plealures of the Field 5 and (q) 

 Columella^ when he wrote his Trad De Re 

 Rufiica^ confirms the fame, inafmuch as that 

 Prince, whilft he was yet young, was a fre- 

 quent Auditor of their Rural Ledures, and 

 particularly commanded him to compofe an 

 Oration on thofe delightful Subjeds. 



Cato^ VarrOj Columella^ and Palladiiis {'^s 

 I have faid) wrotfe excellent Rules in Huf- 

 bandry, which are bound up together, and 

 printed' in J 5 :i^^ with Notes by Beroaldus 

 and others. 

 Cuoand Cato and Varro are the firft^ of whofe 

 varro. L^ygg ^here is little that I have feen extant, 

 as to this point 3 their Writings were very 

 concife and full, but mix'd, like all the an- 

 cient Writers, with too many fuperflitious 

 Columella. Conceits. Columella is in that Work plac d 

 the third 5 he Was born at Gadita?ms, and 

 writ Twelve Books de Re Rnftica, and ano- 

 ther, by way of Addenda^ concerning Trees, 

 but that is doubted whether genuine or not. 



(f) Sueton in Vica Claudii. {q) Columella de Re 

 Rulhca. Lib. 1 1. cip. i . 



He 



