Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 106
of their ad joining-villas.= Horace was the son of a former slave of the Horatianfamily, an honest and thrifty fellow, who had beengranted freedom, and, having acquired a sufficient com- Dc Oraiore, ii, 55. - Local topoi^rnphers lay nrreat stress on the mention of a fundusCassianua [Iarni of the… … THE SMALL WATERFALLS THE LAND OF HORACE 79 petency in his native town of Venosa, nursed but oneambition, — that his freeborn son should liave a liighercareer in life. In this he did not differ from the Italianpeasant of the present day, who pinches himself tostarvation that the firstborn of the…
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