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owing to the conveyance {vectura) over it, and 

 vella^ not villa^ for the place to and from which 

 produce is conveyed {vehif). Carriers likewise are 

 said to follow the trade of conveying {velatura), 



15 Certainly, said Fundanius, the feeding of stock 

 is one thing, tilling the land is another, yet they 

 are related, just as the right-hand flute, though 

 different from the left-hand one, is yet in a sense 

 united to it since the song is the same, of which the 

 one leads and the other accompanies the tune. 



16 Yes, and you may add, said I, that the shep- 

 herd's life is the leading part, the farmer's takes the 

 second — on the authority of the learned Dicae- 

 archus,' who, in the picture he has drawn for us of 

 primitive Greek life, shows that in former ages 

 there was a time when men led a pastoral life, with 

 no knowledge of ploughing, sowing, or pruning, 

 and that they took up agriculture a degree later in 

 point of time. Agriculture, therefore, plays second 

 to the pastoral life, in that it is lower, like a left- 

 hand flute in relation to the stops of the right-hand 

 one. 



17 Then said Agrius, You and your piping not 

 only rob the farmer of his flock, but the slave, too, 

 of his peculmm — the ox which his master allows 

 him to graze, and you do away with the laws for 

 settlers, in which it is written: On land planted 

 with young trees let not the settler pasture the off- 



' Oicaearchus. A Greek philosopher, disciple of Aristotle. 

 His most important work was that referred to here, the 

 Life of Hellas. 



