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Cato’s second century BC 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 De re rustica is not a practical treatise but instruction, in dialogue form, about agricultural life meant for prosperous country gentlemen.

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    A Hardback by Cato Cato, Varro, W. D. Hooper

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      Publisher: Loeb
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 7/1/1989 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780674993136, 978-0674993136
      ISBN10: 0674993136
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      Book Synopsis
      Cato’s second century BC 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 De re rustica is not a practical treatise but instruction, in dialogue form, about agricultural life meant for prosperous country gentlemen.

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