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"Until he comes then," said I, "let us make a practical application of the ancient proverb that 'The Roman conquers by sitting down." "You're right," cried Agrius, and, remembering that the first step of a journey is the most difficult, he lead the way to the benches forthwith and we followed. When we were seated Agrasius spoke up.
"Beware," exclaimed Agrius, "of pushing your musical analogy too far, for you would not only rob the farmer of his cattle and the shepherd of his livelihood but you would even break the law of the land in which it is written that a farmer may not graze a young orchard with that pestiferous animal which astrology has placed in the heavens near the Bull."
"See here, Agrius," said Fundanius, "let there be no mistake about this. The law you cite applies only to certain designated kinds of cattle, as indeed there are kinds of cattle which are the foes and the bane of agriculture such as those you have mentioned the goats for by their nibbling they ruin young plantations, and not the least vines and olives.
"What are the quarters of the moon," said Agrius, "and what bearing have they on agriculture?" This is all I know about the effect of the four quarters of the moon upon agriculture." Of tillage If you break the ground with a plough and cattle, it is well to work the land a second time before you sow your seed.
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
"A field ought to lie fallow every other year," said Stolo, "or at least be planted with some crop which makes less demand upon the soil." "Tell us," said Agrius, "about the third operation which relates to the cultivation and the nourishment of the crops." Of the conditions of plant growth
"The answer to that question is easy," said Agrius. "You should sell the farm for what you can get for it: and if you can't sell it, give it away." Scrofa resumed: "Take care to avoid having the steading face the direction from which disagreeable winds blow, yet you should not build in a hollow.
When men discovered the isles of Aeolus in the Lipari islands, when they pointed out at the Lacinian cape the isle of Calypso, at the cape of Misenum that of the Sirens, at the cape of Circeii that of Circe, when they recognized in the steep promontory of Terracina the towering burial-mound of Elpenor, when the Laestrygones were provided with haunts near Caieta and Formiae, when the two sons of Ulysses and Circe, Agrius, that is the "wild," and Latinus, were made to rule over the Tyrrhenians in the "inmost recess of the holy islands," or, according to a more recent version, Latinus was called the son of Ulysses and Circe, and Auson the son of Ulysses and Calypso we recognize in these legends ancient sailors' tales of the seafarers of Ionia, who thought of their native home as they traversed the Tyrrhene Sea.
"You forget," said Agrius, "his most important precept: 'If you wish to drink freely and dine well in company, you should eat five leaves of raw cabbage steeped in vinegar, before sitting down to the table." b. What agriculture is III. "And so," said Agrasius, "as we have agreed upon and eliminated from the discussion all those things which agriculture is not, it remains to discuss what it is.
The fourfold division of the study of agriculture V. I have rehearsed the elements and the purposes of agriculture, it now remains to consider in how many divisions this science is to be studied." "I have supposed these to be without number," said Agrius, "when I have read the many books which Theophrastus wrote on The History of Plants and The Causes of Vegetation.
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