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1 Cato, c. 3. Varro and Columella give the same advice.
2 See B. iii. c. 9.
3 Sylla the Fortunate, the implacable enemy of Marius.
4 Because, though the last comer, he had obtained the best site in the locality.
5 Od. v. 469. If the river has a bed of sand and high banks, it is really advantageous than otherwise.
6 In B. xvii. c. 3.
7 Not to be found in his works which have come down to us.
8 Prunus spinosa of Linnæus
9 See B. xix. c. 30; probably one of the genus Allium sphæroce- phalum of Linnæus.
10 "Herba pratensis." It is not known with certainty to what plant he alludes. Fée suggests that it may be the Poa pratensis, or else a phleum, alopecurus, or dactylis. All the plants here mentioned by Pliny will thrive in a calcareous soil, and their presence, as Fée remarks, is of bad augury.
11 He alludes to the famous maxim in the Georgics, B. ii. 1. 412:—
——Laudato ingentia rura,
Exiguum colito——
"Praise a large farm, cultivate a small one."
12 By introducing slovenly cultivation.
13 That small part of it known to the Romans. Hardouin says that the province of Zeugitana is alluded to, mentioned in B. v. c. 3.
14 And reside on the farm.
15 Villicus.
16 De Re Rust. c. 5.
17 A.U.C. 737.
18 Probably because it entailed too great an expense. It may have been deeply mortgaged: otherwise it is not clear why the heir refused to take it, as he might have sold a part.
19 He means to say that it is so much labour lost, as it will take care of itself; but this is hardly in accordance with his numerous directions given in B. xv. Virgil, Geor. B. ii. 421, et seq., speaks of the olive as requiring no attention when it has once taken root.
20 See B. xvii. c. 3.
21 In throwing away money and labour upon land that does not require it.
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