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in '*dolia"; (2) a place — the ''torcular" or *'forus 

 v'inarius et olearius " — for the plant needed for the mak- 

 ing of wine and oil; and (3) barns for dry produce. 

 Columella, in a chapter (I, 6, 9) which is little else than 

 an elegant paraphrase of Varro, mentions these three 

 places together: ** Pars autem fructuaria dividitur in 

 cellam oleariam, torculariam, cellam vinariam," etc. 

 The passage would read, as amended: ** Fructus, ut 

 est vinum et oleum, loco piano in cellis (item uhi vasa 

 vinaria et olearia ponas faciendum) : aridus ut est faba 

 et faenum in tabulatis." 



^» ^3» 3* "Cohortes in fundo magno duae aptiores : 

 una ut interdius compluvium habeat lacum ubi aqua 

 saliat, qui intra stylobatas cum velit sit semipiscina." 



Keil (p. 47) makes "compluvium" an adjective — of 

 which no other example is to be found — and interprets 

 thus: ** Compluvium autem lacum dicit in quem interdiu 

 canalibus aqua . . . ducitur." But it is obvious that no- 

 thing like this is contained in or implied by the text, for 

 '* compluvium " must either be the familiar noun or 

 '* compluvium lacum " mean a tank or pond in which 

 rain collects. In either case ** interdius" seems to be 

 inadmissible and the word ** saliat " inappropriate. 



In Chapter XI Varro had said that the villa should 

 possess a spring within its precincts, or that water 

 should flow into it all the year round ; but that if there 

 were no *Mive" water a **lacus sub dio" should be 

 made for the cattle; and Palladius (I, 31) states that 

 there should be two "piscinae," which could be filled 

 **aut fonte aut imbre." It seems possible that Varro 

 alludes in the text to the two alternatives: meaning 

 that when there was no "aqua viva," 1.^., spring or 

 stream, a "compluvium " was to be employed from which 



