De Agri Cultura
De Agri Cultura (On Farming) is Cato the Elder's treatise on running a Roman farm, written in the 160s BC and the oldest surviving work of Latin prose. It covers vineyards and the slaves who worked them, recipes for farm produce and the religious rites a farmer should perform.
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- Cato: De Agricultura (Loeb edition, Hooper and Ash), LacusCurtius (penelope.uchicago.edu)
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