Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Paradīsus

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Paradīsus

（παράδεισος). A word obtained by the Greeks from the Persians (Pollux, ix. 13), and applied by them to any park or plaisance which surrounded the country-houses of the Persian nobles. They were often of very great extent, and were usually stocked with wild animals for the chase, beautified by trees and streams, and enclosed by a wall. (Cf. Xen. Anab. i. 4.10; ii. 4.16; Gell. ii. 10). They were introduced into Greece at the time of the successes of Alexander. (See I. Müller's Handbuch, iv. p. 468.) For similar enclosures among the Romans, see Vivarium.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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