The accompanying little map will show that all his villas lay on or near to one or other of the two great roads that led southwards from the capital.

The via Latina would take him in an hour or two to Tusculum, where, since the death of Catulus in 68, he owned the villa of that excellent aristocrat.[394] The site of the villa cannot be determined with certainty, but Schmidt gives good reasons for believing that it was where we used formerly to place it, on the slope of the hill above Frascati.

That it really stood there, and not in the hollow by Grottaferrata,[395] we would willingly believe, for no one who has ever been there can possibly forget the glorious view or the refreshing air of those flowery slopes.

No wonder the owner was fond of it.

He tells Atticus, when he first came into possession of it, that he found rest there from all troubles and toils (_ad Att._ i.