Note 3 — I. HESIOD. EIGHTH CENTURY B.C.
Reading edition
Cf. Horace (whom, however, we do not quote as an authority)—
“Let olives, endives, mallows light Be all my fare;”
and Virgil thus indicates the charm of a rural existence for him who realises it:—
“Whatever fruit the branches and the mead Spontaneous bring, he gathers for his need.”