LEADER 03349olm 22005174 450 001 996296846003316 005 20190701163327.0 010 $a0-674-99313-6 035 $a(CKB)3820000000012251 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001418018 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11807071 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001418018 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11386522 035 $a(PQKB)10466055 035 $a(OCoLC)902696529 035 $a(MaCbHUP)hup0000383 100 $a20141025d2014---- my 0 101 0 $aeng 105 $ay 00 y 135 $aurcn ||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOn agriculture$fCato ; with an English translation by William Davis Hooper 205 $arevised$bby Harrison Boyd Ash. 210 1$aCambridge, MA$cHarvard University Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource$dcm 225 1 $aLoeb Classical Library ;$v283 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 330 $aCato's second century BCE De Agricultura is our earliest complete Latin prose text, recommends farming for its security and profitability, and advises on management of labor and resources. Varro's Res rustica (37 BCE) is not a practical treatise but instruction, in dialogue form, about agricultural life meant for prosperous country gentlemen.$bCato (M. Porcius Cato) the elder (234-149 BCE) of Tusculum, statesman and soldier, was the first important writer in Latin prose. His speeches, works on jurisprudence and the art of war, his precepts to his son on various subjects, and his great historical work on Rome and Italy are lost. But we have his De Agricultura; terse, severely wise, grimly humorous, it gives rules in various aspects of a farmer's economy, including even medical and cooking recipes, and reveals interesting details of domestic life. Varro (M. Terentius), 116-27 BCE, of Reate, renowned for his vast learning, was an antiquarian, historian, philologist, student of science, agriculturist, and poet. He was a republican who was reconciled to Julius Caesar and was marked out by him to supervise an intended national library. Of Varro's more than seventy works involving hundreds of volumes we have only one on agriculture and country affairs (Rerum Rusticarum) and part of his work on the Latin language (De Lingua Latina; Loeb nos. 333, 334), though we know much about his Satires. Each of the three books on country affairs begins with an effective mise en scene and uses dialogue. The first book deals with agriculture and farm management, the second with sheep and oxen, the third with poultry and the keeping of other animals large and small, including bees and fishponds. There are lively interludes and a graphic background of political events. 606 $aAgriculture$xEarly works to 1800$2BNCF 606 $aAgriculture$2fast 607 $aRome (Empire)$2fast 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAgriculture$xEarly works to 1800. 615 7$aAgriculture 700 $aCato$bMarcus Porcius$f234 B.C.-149 B.C.,$071570 702 $aVARRO,$bMarcus Terentius 702 $aAsh$bHarrison Boyd$f1891-1944, 702 $aHooper$bWilliam Davis$f1868-1945, 801 0$bMaCbHUP$aIT$gREICAT 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996296846003316 959 $aBK 996 $aDe agri cultura$919751 997 $aUNISA