On Agriculture

Name: On Agriculture
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ISBN: 9780674993136

ISBN-10: 0674993136

ISBN-13: 9780674993136

Edition: 1934 (Revised)

Authors: Cato, Varro, W. D. Hooper, Harrison Boyd Ash

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Cato (M. Porcius Cato) the elder (234-149 BC) 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 BC, of Reate, renowned for his vast learning, was an antiquarian, historian, philologist, student of science, agriculturist, and poet. He was a republican…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1934
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1934
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 576
Size: 4.25" wide x 6.37" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Harrison Boyd Ash (1891-1944) was Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Pennsylvania.



Preface


Introduction


Bibliography Cato Varro











Glossary Of Terms


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