[666] Cato agr 16, 136-7, 146.
[667] In 147 the emptor of a season’s lambs seems to be bound to provide a pastor, who is held as a pledge to secure the final settlement.
[668] Cato agr praef.
[669] Cato agr 10 § 1, 11 § 1.
[670] 2 § 7 patrem familias vendacem non emacem esse oportet.
[671] Cato agr 1.
[672] Mommsen in Hermes XV p 408.
[673] praef § 2, 1 § 4. According to a speaker in Seneca controv VII 6 § 17 Cato’s later wife was coloni sui filiam ... ingenuam. Plut Cat mai 24 makes her πελάτιν, that is daughter of a client. There seems to be no real contradiction. The cliens might be his patron’s tenant.
[674] 2 § 7 boves vetulos ... servum senem, servum morbosum ... vendat. Cf Plut Cat mai 5, Martial XI 70, Juvenal X 268-70. In Terence Hautont 142-4 the Old Man, on taking to farming, sells off all his household slaves save such as are able to pay for their keep opere rustico faciundo. His motive for giving up domestic comfort and taking to hard manual labour on the land is to punish himself. So ibid 65-74 he appears as neglecting to keep his farm-hands at work.
[675] Plut Cat mai 21.