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ROMAN FARM MANAGEMENT
PREFACE
The present editor made the acquaintance of Cato and Varro standing at
a book stall on the Quai Voltaire in Paris, and they carried him away
in imagination, during a pleasant half hour, not to the vineyards and
olive yards of Roman Italy, but to the blue hills of a far distant
Virginia where the corn was beginning to tassel and the fat cattle
were loafing in the pastures. Subsequently, when it appeared that
there was then no readily available English version of the Roman
agronomists, this translation was made, in the spirit of old Piero
Vettori, the kindly Florentine scholar, whose portrait was painted by
Titian and whose monument may still be seen in the Church of Santo
Spirito: in the preface of his edition of Varro he says that he
undertook the work, not for the purpose of displaying his learning,
but to aid others in the study of an excellent author. Victorius was
justified by his scholarship and the present editor has no such
claim to attention: he, therefore, makes the confession frankly (to
anticipate perhaps such criticism as Bentley's "a very pretty poem,
Mr. Pope, but don't call it Homer") and offers the little book to
those who love the country, and to read about the country amidst the
crowded life of towns, with the hope that they may find in it some
measure of the pleasure it has afforded the editor.
The texts and commentaries used have been those of Schneider and Keil,
the latter more accurate but the former more sympathetic.
Table of Contents
ROMAN FARM MANAGEMENT
PREFACE
F.H. BELVOIR,
FOREWORD TO SECOND EDITION
FAIRFAX HARRISON.
BELVOIR HOUSE,
CONTENTS
NOTE UPON THE ROMAN AGRONOMISTS
NOTE ON THE OBLIGATION OF VIRGIL TO
CATO'S DE AGRICULTURA
SYNOPSIS
VARRO'S RERUM RUSTICARUM LIBRI TRES
SYNOPSIS
BOOK I
THE HUSBANDRY OF AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER
A CALENDAR OF AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS
ANOTHER CALENDAR OF SIX AGRICULTURAL SEASONS
CHAPTER
BOOK II
THE HUSBANDRY OF LIVE STOCK
BOOK III
THE HUSBANDRY OF THE STEADING
INDEX.
ROMAN FARM MANAGEMENT
NOTE UPON THE ROMAN AGRONOMISTS
COLUMELLA I, I.
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO (B.C. 234-149),
MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO (B.C. 116-28)
NOTE ON THE OBLIGATION OF VIRGIL TO VARRO
(R.R. I, I, 2,
50: R.R. I, 6),
R.R. I, 51).
R.R. I, 27)
II, 136-176: R.R. I, 2, 6),
R.R. I, 7, 6).
(G. III, 61: R.R. II, 5, 13);
163: R.R. I, 20)
III, 123-129: R.R. II, 5, 12)
III, 138: R.R. II, 7, 10).
IV, 26: R.R. III, 16, 27);
R.R. III, 16, 13),
62: R.R. III, 16, 7
70-87: R.R. III, 16, 9
CATO'S DE AGRICULTURA
VARRO'S RERUM RUSTICARUM
LIBRI TRES
BOOK I
THE HUSBANDRY OF AGRICULTURE
I
A CALENDAR OF AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS
ANOTHER CALENDAR OF SIX AGRICULTURAL SEASONS
BOOK II
THE HUSBANDRY OF LIVE STOCK
BOOK III
THE HUSBANDRY OF THE STEADING
I
FOOTNOTES
A VIRGINIA RECIPE FOR CURING HAMS
A VIRGINIA RECIPE FOR COOKING HAMS
XXXV, 169),
(VIII, 460)
(II.P. 9, I)
XVIII, 75)
"HIC INTERMISIMUS,"
(H.A. V, 2, 9)
(H.N. VIII, 211)
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