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CHAPTER XII 



OF WARRENS 



1 Meanwhile Appius returned, and after mutual in- 

 quiries as to what had been done and said, he spoke 

 on as follows : We now come to the second ^ act, 

 to what is generally an appendage of the farm-house, 

 and is still called by its ancient name of hare-warren 

 {leporarium)^ from a part only of the uses to which 

 the thing is put. For, in fact, not only hares are 

 enclosed in it, in a wood, as w^as in former times the 

 case with the mere paddock an acre or two in size 

 — but there are many acres, and stags or roes, as well 

 as hares. It is said that Quintus Fulvius Lippinus^ 

 has forty iugera (twenty-six acres) enclosed in the 

 country about Tarquinii, in which are confined not 

 only the animals I have mentioned, but wild sheep 

 as well ! The same man has a park even bigger 

 than this near Statona, and such parks are to be 



2 found in other districts. In Transalpine Gaul, more- 



^ Actus secundi. Cf. lii, 3, i : Eius disciplinae genera sunt 

 tria, ornithones, leporaria, piscinae. 



^ Q. F. Lippinus. Cf. Pliny (viii, 52): "The first of the 

 Romans to make preserves for these and other creatures of 

 the woods was Fulvius Lippinus, who had a park for them 

 near Tarquinii. He was soon imitated by L. Lucullus and 

 Q. Hortensius." And again (ix, 56) : " Fulvius Lippinus made 

 an enclosure for snails near Tarquinii a little before the civil 

 war between Pompey and Caesar." 



