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They are soon joined by Licinius Stolo and Tremellius Scrofa, the last- mentioned being the highest living authority on agricultural matters. The conversation is carried on with zest, and somewhat more naturally than in Cicero's dialogues. A warm eulogy is passed on the soil, climate, and cultivation of Italy, the whole party agreeing that it exceeds in natural blessings all other lands.
But are you sure that he cannot prove he was not there?" "Quite sure, Chærea. For he was there." "And no witnesses who can prove to whom he spoke?" "Only one witness, and he will say nothing, unless called upon by Paullus." "And if so called upon?" "Will most reluctantly corroborate the tale of Stolo and Rufinus!"
"These books," said Stolo, "have always seemed to me to be fitter for use in the schools of the philosophers than in the hands of a practical farmer. I do not mean to say that they do not contain many things which are both useful and practical. However that may be, do you rather explain to us the divisions in which agriculture should be studied."
Volero was that night murdered, and it appears to me, that you are bringing this accusation against a young patrician, in order to conceal your own base handiwork in the deed. Fellows, I grievously suspect you." "Wrongfully, then, you do so," answered Stolo, who was the bolder and more ready witted of the two.
The Senate appointed another dictator, but he made that very Licinius Stolo, the leader of the popular party, his master of the horse, and thus enabled him to pass a law which was especially distasteful to the patricians, for it forbade any one to possess more than five hundred jugera of land.
"Listen to the incantation," said Stolo. 'May the earth keep the malady, May good health remain here. Saserna bids you chant this formula thrice nine times, to touch the earth, to spit and be sure that you do it all before breakfast." "You will find," said I, "many other wonderful secrets in Saserna, all equally foreign to agriculture, and so all to be left where they are.
Yet the plebeians were making their way, and at last succeeded in gaining the plebeian magistracies and equal honors with the patricians. A curious story is told of the cause of the last effort which gained the day. A patrician named Fabius Ambustus had two daughters, one of whom he gave in marriage to Servius Sulpicius, a patrician and military tribune, the other to Licinius Stolo.
So also several of these instruments are of many varieties, as for instance the falx, of which this author says that there must be provided forty of the kind suitable for use in a vineyard, five for cutting rushes, three for pruning trees and ten for cutting briers." So far Stolo, when Scrofa began again.
Are any of my clients in the atrium—any, I mean, of the trustiest!" "Rufinus, surnamed Lupus, is without, and several others. Stolo, whom you preserved from infamy, when accused of dolus malus, in the matter of assault with arms on Publius Natro, is waiting to solicit you, I fancy, for some favor."
LVI. "Up to this moment," cried Agrius, "I have been sitting in the barn with the keys in my hands waiting for you, Stolo, to bring in the harvest." "Lo, I am here at the threshold," replied Stolo. "Open the gates for me." Of storing hay
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