I] ON VINE-TRAINING 31 



other by slanting lines, the vines being trained 



lengthways and sideways. ^ The latter is the usual 



^ way in Italy. If the material needed for this train- 



I ing grows on one's property, the cost is not formid- 

 ; able; if much can be had from a neighbouring 

 •3 estate, it is but trifling. Of the four classes of yokes 

 ; above mentioned, the first requires willow planta- 

 ; tions, the second reed-beds, the third rushes, or 



some similar plant, the fourth dwarf-trees, which 

 ; are connected by trailing branches of the vines. The 

 i Milanese use for this trees which they call opult 

 i (maple trees) ; at Canusium they employ fig trees, 

 f the branches of which are strengthened by reeds/ 

 I The prop, too, is of four kinds: one is stout — the 



^ Compluviata. In the ancient Italian house the roof of the 

 jtrium sloped inwards and downwards from each of its four 

 >ides towards the centre, where a square aperture was left 



rough which the rain might fall into the impluvium^ a tank 

 I into the floor to receive it. The sloping sides of the roof, 



II MHth the aperture mentioned, were called the compluvium. 

 When a vine was trained along four strings, which ran from 



c iugum (horizontal pole connecting two tree§)-to four up- 



^'ht stakes (two on each side of the iugum) which did not 



md as high as the iugum, the arrangement was called a 



mpluvium from its resemblance to the compluvium of the 



use; and the vines were said to be compluviatae . Cf. Pliny, 



H., xvii, 21 : Compluviata copiosior vino est, dicta a cavis 



Hum compluviis. Dividitur in quaternas pattes totidem iugis. 



■ //ardulatione {Po\\i\'d.n)t ardulatione (Jenson), etc., are both 



-^intelligible. Of the emendations harundulatione and arundi- 



I «a/i</«<' (Schneider), the former seems the better. Gesncr, insup- 



"^rX. o{ harundulatione y suggests the translation here adopted, 



id quotes Pliny, N. H., xvii, 22 : Saluberrima in iugoharundo 



mtiexa fasciculis. Pontedera suggests in harum iugatione. 



