APPENDIX C 



Marcus Terentius Varro 



AS this passage seems little known I have tran- 

 scribed it here, although it is an uncertain, and 

 perhaps corrupt, text. 



De Re Rustica. Book %., chap. xii. " Sin cogare 

 secundum flumen sedificare, curandum ne adversam earn 

 (villam) ponas : hieme enim fiet vehementer frigida et 

 aestate non salubris. Animadvertum etiam, siqua 

 erunt loca palustria, et propter easdem caussas, et quod 

 (arescunt) crescunt animalia quaedam minuta, qiue non 

 possunt oculi consequi, et per aera intus in corpus per 

 os et nares perveniunt at que efficiunt difficiles morbos." 



Fundanius, " Quid potero " inquit, " facere si istius 

 modi mi fundus hereditati obvenerit, quominus pesti- 

 lentia noceat ? " 



" Istuc vel ego possum respondere," inquit Agrius : 

 " vendas quot assitus possis, aut, si nequeas, rclinquas. 

 . . . Pnetera quod a sole toto die illustratur, salubrior 

 est et bestiolse siquac prope nascuntur et inferuntur, aut 

 efflantur aut aritudine cito percunt." 



" But if you must build beside a river you must take 

 care that you do not put the house to face it : for in 

 winter it will be excessively cold, and in summer un- 

 healthy. For the same reasons you have to be on your 



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