Note 20 — WET-WEATHER WORK.
Reading edition
As a curious illustration of the rhetoric of the different agronomes, I give the various wordings of this universal maxim.
The "Geoponica" has,—"Πολλο τον αγρον αμεινο ποιει δεσποτου συνεχης παρουσια." Lib. II. Cap. i.
Columella says,—"Ne ista quidem præsidia tantum pollent, quantum vel una præsentia domini." I. i. 18.
Cato says,—"Frons occipitio prior est." Cap. iv.
Palladius puts it,—"Præsentia domini provectus est agri." I. vi.
And the elder Pliny writes,—"Majores ferthissimum in agro oculum domini esse dixerunt."