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  • Cato on Farming

    De Agriculture

    by Marcus Cato ...
    Translated by Andrew Dalby ...
    The first recipes to have survived in Latin, from the 2nd century BC, it is a particularly important resource. Cato wrote the earliest surviving complete work of Latin prose literature. It was this treatise: a book of instruction about the cultivation of vines, olives and fruit, the management of slaves and contract labour, the rituals consequent on ownership and even cookery for humans and the ... Read more

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