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The ganany, hould be elerated fon the gound, and ok o thenorhorendt, Oor hu.
thegein vil lno o onbehetedh u being oded by he dr vullendune telongr: he
other aspects generate worms and such vermin as usualy destroy the grain-The -
fable, above allinthe il, houd be buik in he varnet place, and not hok
toward the fie, sorif these citle be staled ear the fre, they become ough coted; nor
are thole stals unuseful which are placed out of the kitchen, in the open ai, toward the
ealt; for in the winter time, when the weacheris ferene, the best, being led thither in the
morning, may be cleaned while they are taking their food.
The bain, hay room, meal-roomn, and mil, are placed without the vila that it may be
more secure from the danger of fire.
If the villais to be built more elegantly, it must be constructed acording to the fymmetry
of city houses, before described; but so as not to impede its use as a villa,
Great care ought to be taken, that all buildings have fufficient light, which in villas is
easily obtained; because there are no walls near to obstruct it. But in the city, either the
height of the party-walls, or the narrownes of the streets, may occasion obscurity. It may
however be thus tried; on the side where the light is to be received, let a line be extended
from the top of the wall that seems to cause the obscurity, to that place to which the light is
required; and if, when looking upward along that line, an ample space of the clear sky may
be seen, the light to that place will not be obstructed; but if beams, lintels, or floors, interfere,
the upper parts must be opened, and thus the light be admitted. The upper rooms are thus
to be managed: on whatsoever part of the heavens the prospect may lie, on that side the places
of the windows are to be left, for thus the edifice will be best enlightened. As in tricliniums
and such apartments, the light is highly necessary, so also is it in passages, ascents, and staircases, -
where people carrying burthens frequently meet each other.
(2*) This sentence suggests an idea that the term culina
did not always, and does not here, signify that particular
apartment which we call the kitchen, for it is not probable
that stalls for cattle should ever have been placed within
such an apartment: it seems likely that it signifies the
farm-yard or court, and also the whole pile of buildings
relative to the farm, that may have been disposed around
it: such a court is mentioned by the writers on the re
rustica, and called chors culina.
(3*) Communium parietum. Tacitus (Ann. 1. 15)
speaking of the regulations made after the conflagration
in Nero's reign, uses these words to express party walls.
Pliny (35. 14) also does (I think) the same; the intergereni, -
he mentions afterward, being in my opinion the
partition walls within the house, separating the different
apartments, not those separating house from house. Vitruvius -
has before (at book 2, chap. 8), used the same
words. See note 7, book 1, chap. 1.
