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horace-works_53		horace-works_53			.txt	text/plain	183	9	76	The palacelike edifices will in a short time leave but a few acres for the plough; ponds of wider extent than the Lucrine lake will be every where to be seen; and the barren planetree will supplant the elms. Then banks of violets, and myrtle groves, and all the tribe of nosegays shall diffuse their odors in the olive plantations, which were fruitful to their preceding master. Then the laurel with dense boughs shall exclude the burning beams. Their private income was contracted, while that of the community was great. No private men were then possessed of galleries measured by tenfeet rules, which collected the shady northern breezes; nor did the laws permit them to reject the casual turf[ for their own huts], though at the same time they obliged them to ornament in the most sumptuous manner, with new stone, the buildings of the public, and the temples of the gods, at a common expense.	./cache/horace-works_53.txt	./txt/horace-works_53.txt