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This is a matter about which
the learned Hesiod, though he wrote on agriculture,
[p. 67]
has not one word to say. But Homer, who, I believe,
lived many generation earlier, represents Laërtes
as soothing his sorrow at the absence of his son
in cultivating his farm and in manuring it, too. Nor
does the farmer find joy only in his cornfields,
meadows, vineyards, and woodlands, but also in
his garden and orchard, in the rearing of his cattle,
in his swarms of bees, and in the infinite variety of
flowers. And not only does planting delight him,
but grafting also, than which there is nothing in
husbandry that is more ingenious.
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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