vopicus

Updated: June 15, 2025

The sedile Caesar Vopicus, in pleading a cause before the Censors, once said that the prairie of Rosea was the nurse of Italy, because if one left his surveying instruments there on the ground over night they were lost next day in the growth of the grass. VIII. There be those who assert that the cost of maintaining a vineyard eats up the profit. What kind of vineyard? I ask.

- Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro