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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 November 2011
Fundi appellatione omne aedificium et omnis ager continetur; sed in usu urbana aedificia ‘aedes’, rustica ‘villae’ dicuntur; locus vero sine aedificio in urbe ‘area’, rure autem ‘ager’ appellatur; idemque ager cum aedificio ‘fundus’ dicitur.
1 Digest 1. xvi, 211.
2 R. G. Collingwood. The Archaeology of Roman Britain (1930), 113. Collingwood was reputedly notorious for ‘trailing his coat’, and it is surprising that no one has picked on this definition before.
3 E.g. Verulamium, Building XXVIII, 1.
4 F. Fremersdorf, Der römische Gutshof Köln-Mungersdorf (1933).
5 G. C. Boon, Roman Silchester (1957), 178.
6 Antiq. Journ. liii (1973), 205Google Scholar; for plan, see Britannia iv (1973), 308 and below, p. 450.Google Scholar
7 Trans. Shrops. Arch. Soc. lvii, pl. XVII and fig. 30.
8 Antiq. Journ. xl, 20; xli, 77.
9 A. L. F. Rivet (ed.), The Roman Villa in Britain (1969), 180.
10 See Mr. Wacher's note 9.
11 Especially l.xvi.210: Marcianus libra septimo institutionum: Is, qui natus est ex mancipiis urbanis et missus est in villam nutriendus, in urbanis servis constitueretur.
12 D. W. Packard, A Concordance to Livy, 1968.
13 Livy vii, 42.4: nec in T. Quincti villam sed in aedes C. Manli nocte impetum/actum, where the distinction is between the country house (villa) of Quinctius and the town house (aedes) of Manlius.
14 Du Cange, Glossarium Mediae et Infimae Latinitatis, s.v., and A. Souter, A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D., s.v. (‘villa = civitas exigua’).
