Note 370 — Vol. II.—42.
Reading edition
The epithet he applies to hortis is sufficiently curious. The scholiast cites Pliny, 1. xxxvi. c. 1. 2. The style of the Roman gardens in Trajan’s time is expressively marked:
Contentus fama jaceat Lucanus in hortis Marmoreis.
Juv. Sat. vii. 1. 79.
It was very well said by one of the first women of the present age, (Mrs. Grant,) that Darwin’s Botanic Garden is an Hesperian garden, glittering all over; the fruit gold, the leaves silver, and the stems brass.
[371] Eneid, lib. vi. 1. 679. lib. viii. 609.
[372] Esther, vii. 7. Tissaphernes had a garden, much resembling an English park, which he called Alcibiades.
[373] Plutarch in Vit. Dion.
[374] In the middle of the Campo Santo, which is the most ancient burying-place at Pisa, is a garden formed of earth, brought from the neighbourhood of Jerusalem.
[375] Philosophy of Nature.