The Satronians and Vedians and we in between all use it, turning to the right towards Reate and to the left towards Rome." Tanno blinked at the soft, hazy view and swept his arm southward.
"That is all Satronian over there ?" he asked.
"All," I said, "as far as the Aemilian domain." "Which way," he queried, "is Villa Vedia ?" "To see it from here," I said, "you would have to look straight through this house and half a dozen hills.

It is almost due north." "Vedians to the northward," he continued, "Satronians to the southward, and just you and Ducconius sandwiched in between, clapper-clawing each other." "No, quite otherwise!" I retorted.

"My property does not touch Vedian or Satronian land anywhere, and Ducconius has barely half a mile of boundary line along the Satronian domain.

There are six other estates, the largest half as big as mine, the smallest not much bigger than the largest of my tenant-farms; three are on one side of me and three on the other.

You will meet the proprietors at dinner, as I told you.