Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Chors

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

CHORS, CORS, or COHORS (χόρτος). A farm, or straw-yard, which constituted one of the principal appendages belonging to a country villa, where the whole live stock, cattle, pigs, poultry, &c., were kept, stalled, and foddered. It consisted of a large court, covered with litter, for the purpose of making dressing for the land, provided with a tank, where the cattle were watered when brought up for the night; and enclosed all round by numerous outbuildings, including sheds for the carts, ploughs, and agricultural implements, as well as stabling, stalls, sties, and houses for the cattle, and other domestic animals (turba cortis, Mart. Ep. iii. 58.), forming the live stock of the farm. (Varro, L. L. v. 88. Id. R. R. 1. 13. 2. and 3. Vitruv. vi. 6. 1.) The illustration (Chors/1.1) annexed, which represents the yard in which the followers of Ulysses were kept when changed into swine, from a miniature of the Vatican Virgil, will serve to convey a notion of the general plan and character of an ancient farm-yard and its dependencies.

2. A sheep pen, made with hurdles and netting, and set up on the lands where the flock pastured, to protect them at night. (Varro, R. R. ii. 2. 9.) Also a permanent enclosure surrounded by high stone walls, in which sheep were stalled. Columell. vii. 3. 8.

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