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or Antiphilus/ though many of the hoer and the 

 shepherd. And my villa has a large farm attached, 

 a farm made clean ^ and neat by cultivation, while 

 yours hasn't a rood of land or a single cow or mare. 



6 And finally, what likeness has yours to the country- 

 house owned by your grandfather and great-grand- 

 father? It has not seen, as the latter saw, hay in the 

 hay-loft, the vintage in the wine cellar, the corn in 

 the granary. For because a building is outside the 

 city it does not follow that it is a country-house any 

 more than is the building belonging to people living 

 outside the Porta Flumentana ^ or in the Aemilian * 

 suburb. 



7 As it appears, said Appius with a smile, that I 

 don't know what a country-house is, please to en- 



— there is a glorious marble copy in the Vatican Museum at 

 Rome. 



^ Antiphili. Antiphllus was contemporary with Lysippus 

 and Apelles, and was famous especially for his genre pictures : 

 e.g.^ a boy blowing a fire, women dressing wool, etc. He 

 painted a humorous picture of a man called Gryllus (y|Oj;XXoc = 

 pig), and ever afterwards caricatures were called grylli. 



For both him and Lysippus cf. Pliny, xxxv, lo, ii. 



^ Polito. Nonius : Politiones agrorum cultus diligentes ut 

 polita omnia dicimus exculta et ad nitorem deducta. Ennius 

 Satyrarum lib. iii^ Jati ca^npi quos gerit Africa terra poliios. 



^ Porta Flumentana. Close to the Porta Carmentalis, and 

 nearer than it to the Tiber. Festus : Flumentana Porta Romae 

 appellata quod Tiheris partem ea fluxisse affirmant. Hortensius, 

 Cicero's rival, had a house close to it (Ad Atticum, vii, 3). 



^ Aemilianis. The Aemiliana, probably a part of the town 

 in the Campus Martius near the Saepta. Cf. Suetonius, 

 Claudius, 18. 



