Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and VarroMarcus Porcius Cato
Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro
Marcus Porcius Cato
Essays
Book language: English
294 pages
A collection of ancient Roman treatises on estate management by Cato and Varro, translated by a Virginia farmer. These essays offer practical advice on farming, crops, livestock, and rural life. They are worth listening to for a window into Roman agriculture and enduring concerns of working the land.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
[Transcriber's note: The extensive and lengthy footnotes have been renumbered and placed at the end of the book.]
ROMAN FARM MANAGEMENT
THE TREATISES OF CATO AND VARRO
DONE INTO ENGLISH, WITH NOTES OF MODERN INSTANCES
BY A VIRGINIA FARMER
1918
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
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