 | William Radcliffe - Fishing - 1921 - 546 pages
...fishes also in fresh waters. For that ancient rustic progeny of Romulus and Numa valued themselves mightily upon this and thought it a great matter,...rural life were compared with a city life, it did not come short in any part of riches whatsoever." « " Grata," according to Festus, p. 196, 26 ff. Lindsay,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1865 - 844 pages
...proficiency in this respect : — For that antient rustic progeny of Romulus and Numa valued themselves mightily upon this, and thought it a great matter...life, it did not labour under the want of, or come short, in any part, of riches or wealth whatsoever; wherefore they not only stored the fish-ponds,... | |
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For that antient rustic progeny of Romulus and Numa valued themselves mightily upon this, and thought it a great matter that, if a rural life were compared with a city life, it did not labour under the want of, or come... 