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pleasure-grounds:

1. horti, orum ("in plurali numero saepe, non tamen semper, dicuntur de iis qui deliciarum causa parantur": Forcell. s. v.): cf. Cic. Ph. 2, 6, 15: Plin. Ep. 8, 18, 11 (fuit tam copiosus, ut amplissimos hortos ... instruxerit plurimis et antiquissimis statuis). In this sense, esp. dimin. hortuli, orum: Cic. Off. 3, 14, 58.

2. vĭrĭdārium, or -iārium (ground set with trees for pleasure): Cic. Att. 2, 3, 2 (where the pl. is used, as in Eng.): Suet. Tib. 60 (sing.).

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