[676] Pliny NH XVIII § 35.
[677] Polyb XXXII 13 §§ 10, 11.
[678] Plut Cat mai 21, 25, 4.
[679] Jordan op cit p 43.
[680] Cf Plin epist III 19 § 5.
[681] Plut Cat mai 21, 4.
[682] Plut Cat mai 20.
[683] Pliny even refers to his precepts as oracula.
[684] Cato agr 1 § 3 operariorum copia siet.
[685] Cato agr 4 operas facilius locabis, operarios facilius conduces.