Named Entity Results, Firmum (Italy)

On Mentula as a ‘land-poor’ property owner. On the identity of Mentula with Mamurra see Intr. 73. The next poem speaks of the same estate as this. Firmanus: Firmum, now Fermo, was a town in Picenum, about forty miles south of Ancona. saltu: the word denoted first uncultivated land (cf. Fest. p. 302 sallus est ubi silvae et pastiones sunt, quarum causa casae quoque ), and then a mFermo, was a town in Picenum, about forty miles south of Ancona. saltu: the word denoted first uncultivated land (cf. Fest. p. 302 sallus est ubi silvae et pastiones sunt, quarum causa casae quoque ), and then a measure of 800 iugera as a single grant of such land by the land-commissions (Varr. R. R. 1.10.2), and then the grant in general, an ‘estate,’ even though comprising, as here, some arable land (cf. Fest. l.c. si qua particula in eo saltu pastorum aut custodum causa aratur, ea res non peremit nomen saltui). tot res egregias: spoken ironically, like non fulso in v. 1, for Catul. 115.1ff. shows that th

With his estate not falsely is Mentula of Firmum said to be rich, which has everything in it of such excellence, game preserves of every kind, fish, meadows, plowland and beasts. In vain: the yield is overcome by the expense. Therefore I grant that he is rich, while everything is lacking. Let us praise the estate, while its owner is a needy man.