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Varro's Aviary at Casinum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

A. W. Van Buren  and
R. M. Kennedy
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Of all the products of ancient Roman civilisation, few were more distinctive than the great villas which, especially in the last century of the republic and the first of the empire, sprang up in obedience to the owners' will, not only on the outskirts of the capital, on the lower slopes of the Alban Hills, and along the fair and salubrious shores of the gulfs of Baiae and Neapolis, but at many a remote point where pure air, fertile soil, broad views and running water, with, if possible, the proximity of a frequented highway, combined to attract the weary administrator or business man in search of repose and to offer the most fascinating of problems to the architect and dillettante.

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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 9 , November 1919 , pp. 59 - 66
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Copyright © A. W. Van Buren and R. M. Kennedy 1919. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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page 59 note 1 Cf. G. Lafaye, in Daremberg and Saglio, s.v.Villa (on col. 886 he discusses Varro's aviary and supplies references to earlier treatment); see especially Rostowzew, M., Pompeianische Landschaften und Römische Villen, in Jahrbuch des k. d. Archäol. Instituts, xix (1904), pp. 103–126Google Scholar; and for provincial villas, Cumont, Fr., Comment la Belgique fut romanisée (extract from Annales de la Société royale d'Archéologie de Bruxelles, xxviii (1914)), pp. 40–45Google Scholar.

page 64 note 1 Antike Denkmāler i, pl. 11.

page 64 note 2 Dessau, Inscr. Lat. Sel. 5335.

page 64 note 3 Pomp. Studien, p. 511.

page 64 note 4 If the inscription had referred to a rebuilding of the city wall, one would have expected another expression than fac(iendum).

page 64 note 5 Pompei e la regione sotterrata dal Vesuvio nell'anno LXXIX, Naples 1879, i, 131-142.

page 65 note 1 ‘Etr. flere,’ in Philologus lxxiv (1917)) 460–469Google Scholar. A divergent interpretation has been advanced by Rizzo, G. E., in Naples Academy Memorie, iv (1919), 138 fGoogle Scholar.

page 65 note 2 C.I.L. i2, p. 217 (Fasti Allif. a. d. iii. Kal. Aug.), p. 219 (Fasti Pinc. id.); Pliny, , N.H. xxxiv, 54, 60Google Scholar; Plutarch, Marius 26; Procopius, , B.G. i, 15Google Scholar.

page 65 note 3 Cicero, de Domo 102, 114; Pliny, , N.H. xvii, 2Google Scholar; Valerius Maximus vi, iii, 1; and probably Suetonius, de Ill. Gramm. 17, where the current texts have Catilinae domus but most of the codd. Catulinae domus.

page 65 note 4 Reproduced after Mon. Inst. vi, pl. xi, by Paschetto, L., Ostia (Diss. Pontif. Accad. ser. ii, t. X (1910)), p. 349Google Scholar, fig. 98.

page 65 note 5 Nogara, B., I mosaici antichi … del Vaticano e del Laterano, Rome 1910, pl. xviGoogle Scholar: there explained as a portico, but ships' prows are represented in the arches.

page 65 note 6 Inventaire des mosaïques de la Gaule et de l'Afrique, 297 (there explained as a portico) and 300: the latter is an interesting parallel, since the arches contain birds, fishes and utensils.

page 65 note 7 Fabricius, in Pauly-Wissowa, R.-E. s.v. Andronikos Kyrrhestes; and W. Judeich, Topographie von Athen, pp. 333 f.

page 65 note 8 Now in one of the newly-arranged rooms in the mezzanino of the Naples Museum, next to the room containing the famous mosaic columns. Published as plate 3 of part I of the sumptuous publication, Gli ornati delle pareti ed i pavimenti delle stanze dell' antica Pompei incisi in rame (the copy the American Academy in Rome bears on the title-page ‘Napoli, nella Stamperia Reale. MDCCCXXIX’ but the first issue began in 1796, or at least bears that date); A. Mau, Gesch. d. Decorativen Wandmalerei in Pompeii, p. 178, pl. vii b; and C. L. Conforti, Le musée national de Naples (Naples, no date, but published after 1895), pl. 93.

page 65 note 9 Antichità di Ercolano, Pitture, pl. xl; Roux, H. et Barré, L., Herculanum et Pompéi, rec. gén…. (Paris 1840), pls. 6, 7Google Scholar.

page 66 note 1 Restoration by Schutze, P. T., in Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, ii (1918), pp. 12 f, plate 6Google Scholar.