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Cato (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.
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- PublisherHarvard University Press
- Publication date1934
- ISBN 10 0674993136
- ISBN 13 9780674993136
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Harvard University Press [Published Date: 1934]. Hardcover, 543 pp. 1979 reprint edition. Very good in good+ dust jacket. Small (4.5 x 6.75") red cloth covered boards with gold lettering on front and spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Original price stamped on front free end paper. Otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and tears and light creasing along edges. light overall scuffing and fading to jacket as well with a bit of the color scuffed off along edges and at bottom corner of front cover. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From front jacket flap] CATO (M. Porcius Cato) the elder (234 - 149 b.c.) of Tusculum, statesman and soldier, was a severe Roman, the extreme of an old type, who opposed Greek ideas nearly all his life. He 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 the domestic behaviour of many of his countrymen.VARRO (M. Terentius), 116 - 17 b.c., of Reate, renowned for his vast learning, was a man of affairs, 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, and in spite of Antony's hostility lived to be 90 years old. Of Varro's more than seventy works involving hundreds of volumes we have only one of his old age on country affairs (Rerum Rusticarum Libri Tres) and part of his work De Lingua Latina (Loeb series, 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, 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. Seller Inventory # 20240923005
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