Note 63: — XVII.—AGRICULTURE. (Wall-Case 52.)
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The cultivation of the olive is well illustrated by a black-figured vase of the sixth century B.C. (No. 521; fig. 211), showing a primitive method of gathering the fruit: a youth has climbed to the top of the tree, and he and two men are beating the branches with sticks to bring the fruit down, while another youth collects it in a vessel. This method is expressly condemned by Varro, an early Roman writer on agriculture.63