32 The UlS TO ?^Y Chap. I. 



Rules, (r) Brevity being what is moft ad- 

 mirable in him. 



And 'tis by his Works, and thofe of Ca- 

 to^ Varro^ Coliir/iel/a, and Falladius^ already 

 mentioned, that the Pradice of Gard'ning, 

 &c. has been ever fince conduced. Pliny 

 is faid to have been ftifled by the Afhes of 

 Mount Vejuvius, as he was advancing too near, 

 to feek into the fecret Caufes of its violent 

 Eruptions 5 tho' others infinuate, that he 

 was kiird by one of his own Servants ^ con- 

 concerning which, fee Suetonius in Vita Caii 

 Flinii, or more at large by his Sifter's Son, 

 commonly called, The Tounger Pliny. 

 Seneca. Seneca^ that moft excellent Philofopher 

 (as we have it from Jujiics Lipfius^ muft not 

 cfcape the Series of this Hiftory 5 the Gran- 

 deur of his Gardens, Granges, and Villas^ 

 drew upon him the Hate of many of his 

 Cotcmporaries : For tho* the Truth of it 

 was, that his Eftates were either left him by 

 his Father, or, that they fell to him by the 

 Royal Munificence of his Princes, rather 

 than by an eager Purfuit after, or any other 

 Acquilition of his own 5 yet he was calum- 

 niated as one given to Extortion, Ufury, 

 and whatnot 5 and that he had accumulated 

 his Wealth out of the Ruins of his Coun- 

 try, (fo much does Envy blaft the Reputa- 



(r) Arborcs avic ,femlnc, plantato Radice, aut Propagine, 

 aut Avulfione, riut Surculo, aut infiio & conjetto Arboris 

 Trunco. Vlin. lib. 17. cap. 10. 



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