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uying you consider usefulness more than beauty, 

 especially if you are careful to choose a market near 

 at hand where they can be had both good and 

 cheap. Of these different implements the choice 

 and number depend on the size of the farm, for 



3 more are needed if it be of wide extent. Thus Cato, 

 said Stolo, first takes as an example a farm of a 

 certain size, and then writes about such a one: 

 that the man who cultivates an olive plantation of 



40 iugera should equip it with five complete sets 

 j: apparatus for making oil,^ which he enumerates 

 in detail. Thus: coppers, pitchers, a pot with three 

 Douts,'' etc., all of bronze: next, implements of wood 

 -iiid iron, such as three large wagons, six ploughs 

 I with their ploughshares, four crates for manure, etc. 

 He mentions, too, the kind and number of iron tools 

 1 needed, as eight iron forks, the same number of 

 hoes, half as many shovels, etc. 



4 He also gives another prescription for the equip- 

 ment of a vineyard, stating that if it consists of 100 



igera it should have three wine presses with all 



' Vasa olearia^ etc. From a comparison with Cato (De 

 K. R., 10 and 12) it seems clear that five "vessels" of each 

 kind are here meant, for Cato (12, i) mentions five presses, 

 five suculae, ^sq Junes lorei, and so on. 



' Nassitema. Usually derived from mwwwand ter, a vessel 

 iwth three noses (spouts or handles). Juvenal, v, 47, speaks 

 of a cup with four "noses," most probably handles. It may 

 be that the word has no connection either with nasum or ter. 

 A gloss of Festus has nassitema est genus vasts aquarii ausati 

 et patentisy a wide vessel for carrying water having a handle 

 (or handles). 



