Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Ornithon

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

ORNI'THON (ὀρνιθών). An aviary or poultry-house, forming one of the principal appurtenances to a farm, or country villa, in which all kinds of domesticated birds were reared, kept, and fattened for the table. These buildings were constructed and laid out upon a very magnificent scale by the Roman gentry and farmers. Varro, R. R. iii. 3. Columell. viii. 3.