[726] de quibus universis. This seems to refer to all human workers.
[727] gravia loca. Cf I 12 § 2.
[728] operarios parandos esse, not conducendos, for these are clearly slaves. Cf I 16 § 4.
[729] The text here is damaged. I give the apparent meaning.
[730] qui praesint, a very general expression.
[731] That is, obedience.
[732] offensiones domesticas. Varro may have in mind the Syrians in the Sicilian slave-wars and the Thracians and Gauls under Spartacus.
[733] peculium.
[734] Here also the text is doubtful.
[735] RR II 3 § 7 in lege locationis fundi excipi solet ne colonus capra natum in fundo pascat.