Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 132 pages of information about Acetaria.

Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 132 pages of information about Acetaria.

[Footnote 110:  Cowley, Garden.  Stanz. 6.]

[Footnote 111:  Hence in Macrobius Sat. lib. vii. c. 5. we find Eupolis the Comedian in his aeges, bringing in Goats boasting the Variety of their Food, [Greek:  Boskometh ules apo pantodaoes, elates], &c. After which follows a Banquet of innumerable sorts.]

[Footnote 112:  Esa. lxv. 25.]

[Footnote 113:  Bina tunc jugera populo Romano satis erat, nullique majorem modum attribuit, quo servos paulo ante principis Neronis, contemptis hujus spatii Virdariis, piscinas juvat habere majores, gratumque, si non aliquem & culinas. Plin.  Hist.  Nat. lib. xviii. c. 2.]

[Footnote 114:  Interea gustus elements per omnia quaerunt. Juv.  Sat. 4.]

[Footnote 115:  Cicero. Epist. Lib. 7. Ep. 26. Complaining of a costly Sallet, that had almost cost him his Life.]

[Footnote 116:  Valeriana, That of Lectucini, Achilleia, Lysimachia, Fabius, Cicero, Lentulus, Piso, &c. a Fabis, Cicere, Lente, Pisis bene serendis dicti, Plin.]

[Footnote 117:  Mirum esset non licere pecori Carduis vesci, non licet plebei, &c. And in another Place, Quoniam portenta quoque terrarum in ganeam vertimus, etiam quae refugeant quadrupeded consciae, Plin. Hist.  Nat. l. xix. c. 8.]

[Footnote 118:  Gra.  Falisc. Gyneget.  Was. See concerning this Excess Macr. Sat. l. 2. c. 9. & sequ.]

[Footnote 119:  Horti maxime placebant, quia non egerent igni, parcerentque ligno, expedita res, & parata semper, unde Acetaria appellantur, facilia concoqui, nee oneratura sensum cibo, & quae minime accenderent desiderium panis. Plin.  Hist.  Nat.  Lib. xix. c. 4. And of this exceeding Frugality of the Romans, till after the Mithridatic War, see Athenaeus Deip.  Lib. 6. cap. 21.  Horat. Serm.  Sat. 1.]

[Footnote 120:  Nequam esse in domo matrem familias (etenim haec cura Foeminae dicebatur) ubi indiligens esset hortus.]

[Footnote 121:  Alterum succidium. Cic. in Catone.  Tiberias had a Tribute of Skirrits paid him.]

[Footnote 122:  Hor. Sat. l. 2. Vix prae vino sustinet palpebras, eunti in consilium, &c. See the Oration of C. Titius de Leg.  Fan.  Mac Sat. l. 2. c. 12.]

[Footnote 123:  Milton’s Paradise, 1. v. ver. 228.]

[Footnote 124: 

  At victus illa aetas cui secimus aurea nomen
  Fructibus arboreis, & quas humus educat herbis
  Fortunata fuit.——­Met. xv.]

[Footnote 125:  Bene moratus venter.]

[Footnote 126:  TAB.  II.]

[Footnote 127: 

  Foelix, quem misera procul ambitione remotum,
    Parvus ager placide, parvus & hortus, alit. 
  Praebet ager quicquid frugi natura requirit,
    Hortus habet quicquid luxuriosa petit,
  Caetera follicitae speciosa incommoda vitae
    Permittit stultis quaerere, habere malis.
  Cowley, Pl. lib. iv.]

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