Etenim hac incuria laborare aiebat M. Lucullum ac piscinas eius despiciebat, quod aestuaria idonea non haberet, ac reside aqua in locis pestilentibus habitarent pisces eius; contra ad Neapolim L. Lucullum, posteaquam perfodisset montem ac maritumum flumen immisisset in piscinas, qui reciproce fluerent ipsae, Neptuno non cedere de piscatu.
In fact he used to say that Marcus Lucullus suffered from carelessness in this respect, and he looked down on his ponds because they did not have suitable tidal-basins, and so, as the water became stagnant, his fish lived in unwholesome quarters; while, on the other hand, after Lucius Lucullus had cut through a mountain near Naples and let a stream of sea-water into his ponds, so that they ebbed and flowed, he had no need to yield to Neptune himself in the matter of fishing
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