De Agri Cultura

De Agri Cultura

Cato · -160

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1. Buy and build slowly, sell quickly

   Cato instructs the owner to be a seller rather than a buyer, and to be slow in constructing buildings but not slow in planting crops. He adds that one should build only when the land is already fully farmed, since buildings follow proven productivity rather than preceding it.

2. The overseer as accountable delegate

   Cato defines the overseer's duty as keeping order, settling disputes, and ensuring work is done while never claiming he could not because a slave was bad or the weather poor. Responsibility is framed as absorbing conditions rather than citing them as excuses, and the overseer must himself set the example by rising first and sleeping last.

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