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Num igitur horum senectus miserabilis fuit, qui se agri cultione oblectabant?
The statement of Cic. in the text is repeated almost verbatim by Plin. MISERABILIS: 'to be pitied'. The word does not quite answer to our 'miserable'. AGRI CULTIONE: a rare expression, found elsewhere only in Verr. 3, 226; then not again till the 'Fathers'. HAUD SCIO AN NULLA: since haud scio an is affirmative in Cicero, not negative as in some later writers, nulla must be read here, not ulla.
Cultione agri or something of the kind might have been expected. The collocation of appetentem with occupatum in 56 is no less awkward. FACIT: n. on 3 facimus. RES RUSTICAE LAETAE SUNT: 'the farmer's life is gladdened'. APIUM: this form is oftener found in the best MSS., of prose writers at least, than the other form apum, which probably was not used by Cic. OMNIUM: = omnis generis.
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