Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pseudourbana

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. 

PSEUDOURBA'NA sc. aedificia. Those parts of a farmhouse or country villa which were appropriated to the use of the owner and his family, i. e. the mansion itself, apart from the farm-buildings and the tenements occupied by the farming-men (familia rustica.) (Vitruv. vi. 5. 3. compared with Columell. i. 6. 1.) The term pseudourban, which might be translated city-like, was given to the above-mentioned part of the villa, because, though in reality a country-seat, it was designed and laid out upon the same plan and with the same luxuries as a town mansion.