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In the next place, by way of consolation, I persuaded myself that the hope of a distribution of land is now all centred on the Campanian territory. That land cannot support more than 5,000, so as to give ten iugera apiece: the rest of the crowd of expectants must necessarily be alienated from them.
I never saw a shadier spot in summer water springs in many parts of it, and abundant into the bargain. In short, Cæsius thought that you would easily irrigate fifty iugera of the meadow land. For my part, I can assure you of this, which is more in my line, that you will have a villa marvellously pleasant, with the addition of a fish-pond, spouting fountains, a palæstra, and a shrubbery.
But the plan, though rectangular, is not normal. According to the French archaeologists who have worked it out, it comprised a large number of streets perhaps as many as forty running parallel to the coast, a smaller number running at right angles to these down the hillside towards the shore, and many oblong 'insulae', measuring each about 130 x 500 ft., roughly two Roman iugera.
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