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and fish-ponds. The word ^^ aviary," in the sense 

 in which I now use it, covers all winged things 

 which are fed within the walls of the villa. *' Warren" 



2 I want you to understand not in the sense our 

 grandsires used the word — as a place in which were 

 only hares ^ — but as any enclosure attached to the 

 villa which contains shut up in it animals to be fed. 

 In the same way I mean by fish-pond any pond, be 

 the water fresh or salt, which has fish confined in it 



3 close to the villa. Each class of the things men- 

 tioned may be subdivided into at least two divi- 

 sions: those animals which are content with dry 

 land alone — peacocks for example, together with 

 doves and fieldfares — belong to the first, while 

 under the second division come those for which dry 

 land alone is insufficient, as they need water as well ; 

 such as geese, teal, and ducks. In the same way 

 the second division I mentioned above as connected 

 with hunting, has two separate classes, the one in- 

 cluding wild boars, roes, and hares, the other, 

 animals which are also without the villa, such as 



4 bees, snails, and dormice. Similarly the third class 

 of aquatic creatures has two divisions, for men keep 

 fishes, some in sea-water, and some in fresh. 



Now with regard to these six divisions : you must 

 get three kinds of craftsmen corresponding with the 

 three classes I mentioned to you just now, namely, 

 fowlers, hunters, and anglers, or else you must buy 

 from them animals which may be committed to the 



^ Soli lepores. Cf. iii, 12, 6, where the word includes 

 cunicuU, rabbits. 



