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Often appears with: roman villa definition · property, inheritance, and title · poverty and wealth · custom and the manners of a people · campus martius · appius claudius
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“And since there can be no villa where there is no farm and that well cultivated, how can you call this house of yours a villa which has no land appurtenant to it and no cattle or horses?” Marcus Porcius Cato (the Elder) and Marcus Terentius Varro, Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Var · precept
At the villa publica by the Campus Martius, Appius Claudius, Cornelius Merula, and others debate what counts as a Roman villa, contrasting lavish town-like ornament with productive farm property.
when I was your guest a few days ago at your Reatine villa on my way to lake Velinus to settle the controversy between the people of Interamna and Reate.[160] "But" he added, "is not this villa, which our ancestors constructed, simpler and so better than that elaborate one of yours at Reate: do you see any where here any furniture of citrus wood or ormolu, any decorations of vermillion or blue, any tessellations or …