hare-preserve

Updated: June 14, 2025

Swine Cato assigns to a large estate ten sties poultry, and pigeons were kept in the farmyard, and fed as there was need; and, where opportunity offered, a small hare-preserve and a fish-pond were constructed the modest commencement of that nursing and rearing of game and fish which was afterwards prosecuted to so enormous an extent. Means of Husbandry Cattle

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

Swine Cato assigns to a large estate ten sties poultry, and pigeons were kept in the farmyard, and fed as there was need; and, where opportunity offered, a small hare-preserve and a fish-pond were constructed the modest commencement of that nursing and rearing of game and fish which was afterwards prosecuted to so enormous an extent. Means of Husbandry Cattle

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book III : From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States