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and stingy work, and without good luck and good 

 speed it is a delusion and a snare. 



7 And now that I have invoked all these deities, 

 I will reproduce those conversations in which I and 

 others lately discussed the practice of farming. You 

 will find in them the practical information you 

 need; but lest you should in the future require 

 guidance upon matters not contained in them, I will 

 mention those authors, Greek as well as Latin, 

 from whom you may get it. 



8 Of those who have written monographs in Greek 

 on different branches of the subject there are more 

 than fifty. These you will be able to summon 

 whenever you want a consultation on any point: 

 Hiero of Sicily and Attalus Philometer; amongst 

 the philosophers, Democritus, the natural philo- 

 sopher, and Xenophon, Socrates' disciple; of the 

 Peripatetics, Aristotle and Theophrastus ; Archy- 

 tas the Pythagorean, and also Amphilochus of 

 Athens, Anaxipolis of Thasos, Apollodorus of 

 Lemnos, Aristophanes of Mallus, Antigonus of 

 Cumae, Agathocles of Chios, Apollonius of Per- 

 gamus, Aristandrus the Athenian, Bacchius of 

 Miletus, Bion of Solos, Chaeresteus and Chaereas 

 of Athens, Diodorus of Priene, Dion of Colophon, 

 Diophanes of Nicaea, Epigenes of Rhodes, Euagon 

 of Thasos, the two Euphronii — the one of Athens, 

 the other of Amphipolis — Hegesias of Maronea, 

 the two Menanders — one from Priene, the other 



was a statue of this god in Rome, in the right hand of which 

 was a patera, while the left held an ear of corn and a poppy. 



