On agriculture
by Hooper, William Davis, Ash, Harrison Boyd, Caton, Varron
fromLoeb classical library (En ligne)
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Type: Book
Cato's second century BCE De Agricultura is our earliest complete Latin prose text, recommends farming for its security and profitability, and advises on management of labor and resources. Varro's Res rustica (37 BCE) is not a practical treatise but instruction, in dialogue form…
