Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Vivarium

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. 

VIVA'RIUM (ζωγρεῖον). A very general term for any place in which beasts, fowls, fish, or any kind of animals were kept alive, either for the purposes of gain or pleasure; a park for game, a warren, fish-pond, decoy, preserve for oysters, &c. Aul. Gell. ii. 20. Plin. H. N. viii. 50. Ib. 78. Id. ix. 81.