Note 253 — Chapter III · HOLY DAYS
Reading edition
Vergil, Georgica, i, 268-272, with the commentary of Servius. An entire chapter of Columella’s treatise on husbandry (De re rustica, ii, 22) is devoted to a discussion of what may and what may not be done by a farmer on ferial days. The pontifical law in such matters was as minute, tyrannical, and absurd as the rabbinical ordinances relating to the proper observance of the Sabbath. See below, p. 263.