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See also:GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " See also:garth," a paddock attached to a See also:building, and " yard," comes from a See also:Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in See also:Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten) , the ground enclosed and cultivated for the growth of See also:fruit, See also:flowers or vegetables (see See also:HORTICULTURE) . The word is also used for grounds laid out ornamentally, used as places of public entertainment . Such were the famous See also:Ranelagh and See also:Vauxhall Gardens in See also:London; it is similarly used in zoological gardens, and as a name in towns for squares, terraces or streets . From the fact that See also:Epicurus (q.v.) taught in the gardens' at See also:Athens, the disciples of his school of See also:philosophy were known as of 6,716 r&ov KiprWV (so Diog . Laertius x. to) ; and See also:Cicero (De finibus v . 1 . 3, and elsewhere) speaks of the Horti Epicuri . Thus as the " See also:Academy " refers to the Platonic and the " See also:Porch " (vroa) to the Stoic school, so the " See also:Garden " is the name given to the Epicurean school of philosophy . See also:Apollodorus was known as iorrorbpavvos, the See also:tyrant of the garden . |
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