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NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 



is not sparing in his use of technical terms, is obliged to call it by a 

 periphrasis, "an agreeable sort of painting or subject," {amcenissima 

 pictura.) P. 35. 



Note IV. Page 18. 



" In arbustum Ulmos quinquennes sub Urbe transferunt, aut, ut 

 quibusdam placet, quae vicenum pedum esse coeperunt. Sulco, qui 

 Novenarius dicitur, altitudine pedum trium, pari latitudine, et eo 

 ampliiis, circa positas, pedes terni undique e solido adaggerantur. 

 Arulas id vocant in Campania. . . . Opulis eadem ratio semino, qua 

 Ulmos serendi ; transferendi quoque e seminariis, eadem et silvis." — 

 Hist. Nat. lib. xvii. 11. See also Columella., lib. v. 5, 6. — Cato, &c. 



Note V. Page 19. 



"Haec si tibi nimium tristia videbuntur, villae imputabis ; in qu§i 

 didici ab .^gialo, diligentissimo patrefamiliae (is enim nunc hujus agri 

 possessor est,) quamvis vetus arhustwn posse transferri. Hoc nobis 

 senibus discere necessarium est, quorum nemo non olivetum alteriponit. 

 Quod vidi, hoc dico ; illud arboretum trinum aut quadrimum fastidi- 

 enti fructus autumno deponere. Te quoque proteget ilia, quae 



* Tarda venit, seris factura nepotibus umbram.' " 



Sen. Epist. Ixxxvl. p. 558. Edit. Lipsii. 



Note VI. Page 19. 



This skilful husbandman, says the poet, well knew how to order his 

 slow -growing elms in even rows ; to transplant the hardy Pear tree, 

 and the grafted Thornstock, already yielding fruit ; together with the 

 Platanus, of such a size that the votaries of Bacchus might enjoy its 

 shade : — 



" lUe etiam seras in versum distulit Ulmos, 

 Eduramque Pirum, et Spines jam pruna ferentes, 

 J amque ministrantem Platanum potantibus umbras," 



ViRG. Georg. lib. iv. 144. 



This version of the passage, T conceive, we are warranted in believing to 

 be correct, although the word distulit is used, and not transtuUt (from 

 the peculiar epithets which Virgil has bestowed upon the trees,) dis- 

 tinctly showing them not to have been diminutive plants, but trees 

 transferred to the spot when of some magnitude. 



