[696] Ibid 66-7.
[697] Ibid 56.
[698] Ibid 10 § 1, 11 § 1.
[699] It is to be noted that bubulci are to be indulgently treated, in order to encourage them to tend the valued oxen with care. 5 § 6.
[700] Ibid 56 compeditis ... ubi vineam fodere coeperint. Cf Columella I 9 § 4.
[701] Ibid 14.
[702] Ibid 16, 38.
[703] Ibid 136. In 5 § 4 the politor appears as a hired wage-earner, apparently paid by the job. In Varro III 2 § 5 we find fundo ... polito cultura. See Nonius p 66 M for politiones = agrorum cultus diligentes. Greenidge hist p 79 regards the politores as métayer tenants, why, I do not know.
[704] Ibid 7 § 2, 21 § 5.
[705] Ibid 5, especially § 4 operarium, mercennarium, politorem diutius eundem ne habeat die. This is taken by Wallon II pp 100, 345, to mean that these hired men are to be paid off at the end of their stipulated term. Keil thinks they are to be dischargeable at a day’s notice. eundem seems to imply that it was convenient to change your hired men often.