On Agriculture and On Farming

Cato on Agriculture

to the diversity of the reading than the rest. Wherefore, in this category, its readings are not added along with the others.

I have corrected the corrupt writing of the archetype when it was corrected by a certain emendation or seemed to be able to be corrected by easy work. Where a suitable emendation was not available, or grave faults of writing could not be healed without a sharper remedy, I have repeated those things which were written in the archetype; I have added the conjectures of either editors or myself in a few places in the annotation. The remaining items, which pertain to restoring the ancient reading, I have reserved for the commentary, to which the second part of the work is destined. Meanwhile, I thought it would not be useless to have an edition of this kind, which would not present the words of the writers corrected in any way whatsoever, but, with the bad changes of editors removed and the sincere writing of the most ancient copy proposed, would prepare the way for true emendation.

Written at Halle, Saxony, in the month of October, 1884.