[746] RR II 10 §§ 4, 5.

[747] RR I 22 § 1. Basket work is often referred to in scenes of country life. Cf Verg buc II 71-2, georg I 266.

[748] RR III 3 § 4, 17 § 6.

[749] Cf Cato 56, Columella I 9 § 4.

[750] RR I 18 §§ 2, 6.

[751] valetudini tempestati inertiae indiligentiae.

[752] In RR III 2 § 5 cum villa non sit sine fundo magno et eo polito cultura the reference is quite general.

[753] This is well illustrated by the words of Cicero de republ V § 5.

[754] As in his opinion the younger Cato did.

[755] See pro Murena § 62, where disputandi causa is opposed to ita vivendi.