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Available
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Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, c1933.
Description
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, about agricultural life meant for prosperous country gentlemen.
Physical description
xlv, 156 p.; 24 cm
DDC/MDS
631.5 BRE |