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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: On agriculture
  name:
    name part: Κάτων, Μάρκος Πόρκιος
    name part: 234-149
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: συγγραφέας.
  name:
    name part: Βάρρων, Μάρκος Τερέντιος
    role:
      role term: συγγραφέας.
  name:
    name part: Ash, Harrison Boyd
    name part: 1891-1944
    role:
      role term: επιμελητής.
  name:
    name part: Hooper, William Davis
    name part: 1868-1945
    role:
      role term: μεταφραστής.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Ηλεκτρονικά βιβλία
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Cambridge, MA
    publisher: Harvard University Press
    date issued: 1935
    edition: revised /
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: lat
  language:
    language term: lat
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 ηλεκτρονική πηγή
  abstract: Cato's second century BCE 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 Res rustica (37 BCE) is not a practical treatise but instruction, in dialogue form, about agricultural life meant for prosperous country gentlemen. Cato (M. Porcius Cato) the elder (234-149 BCE) 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 BCE, of Reate, renowned for his vast learning, was an antiquarian, historian, philologist, student of science, agriculturist, and poet. He was a republican who was reconciled to Julius Caesar and was marked out by him to supervise an intended national library. Of Varro's more than seventy works involving hundreds of volumes we have only one on agriculture and country affairs (Rerum Rusticarum) and part of his work on the Latin language (De Lingua Latina; Loeb nos. 333, 334), though we know much about his Satires. Each of the three books on country affairs begins with an effective mise en scene and uses dialogue. The first book deals with agriculture and farm management, the second with sheep and oxen, the third with poultry and the keeping of other animals large and small, including bees and fishponds. There are lively interludes and a graphic background of political events.
  target audience: general
  note: Marcus Porcius Cato. On agriculture / Marcus Terentius Varro ; with an English translation by William Davis Hooper ; revised by Harrison Boyd Ash.
  note: Κείμενο στα λατινικά με παράλληλη αγγλική μετάφραση.
  subject:
    topic: Γεωργία
  related item:
    title info:
      title: On agriculture. Marcus Terentius Varro: On agriculture
    name:
      name part: Cato, Marcus Porcius, 234 B.C.-149 B.C.
    origin info:
      publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1935
      edition: Rev.
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Loeb Classical Library 283
  identifier: 9780674993136
  identifier: https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL283/1934/volume.xml
  record info:
    record content source: MaCbHUP
    record creation date: 141025
    record change date: 20211019120449.0
    record identifier: hup0000383
    language of cataloging:
      language term: gre