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Xenophon, On Household Management, 5.1
nan Now I tell you this, continued Socrates , because even the wealthiest cannot hold aloof from husbandry. For the pursuit of it is in some sense a luxury as well as a means of increasing one’s estate and of training the body in all that a free man should be able to do.
nan “Now I tell you this,” continued Socrates, “because even the wealthiest cannot hold aloof from husbandry. For the pursuit of it is in some sense a luxury as well as a means of increasing one's estate and of training the body in all that a free man should be able to do.[2] For, in the first place, the earth yields to cultivators the food by which men live; she yields besides the luxuries they enjoy.[3] Secondly, she supplies all the things with which they decorate altars and statues and themselves, along with most pleasant sights and scents. Thirdly, she produces or feeds the ingredients of many delicate dishes; for the art of breeding stock is closely linked with husbandry; so that men have victims for propitiating the gods with sacrifice and cattle for their own use.[4] And though she supplies good things in abundance, she suffers them not to be won without toil, but accustoms men to endure winter's cold and summer's heat. She gives increased strength through exercise to the men that labour with their own hands, and hardens the overseers of the work by rousing them early and forcing them to move about briskly. For on a farm no less than in a town the most important operations have their fixed times.

Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Pindar, Olympian Odes, 7 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
2. Euripides, Phoenician Women, 857 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
3. Sophocles, Women of Trachis, 761 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 761. and then began his offering with twelve bulls, free from blemish, the prime of the spoil; but altogether he brought a hundred mixed victims to the altar. At first the miserable wretch prayed with serene soul and rejoiced in his ornate garb.
4. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 3.58 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
5. Xenophon, Memoirs, 2.6.24 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 2.6.24. Surely, then, it is likely that true gentlemen will share public honours too not only without harm to one another, but to their common benefit? For those who desire to win honour and to bear rule in their cities that they may have power to embezzle, to treat others with violence, to live in luxury, are bound to be unjust, unscrupulous, incapable of unity.
6. Xenophon, Symposium, 4.41 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 4.41. For whenever I feel an inclination to indulge my appetite, I do not buy fancy articles at the market (for they come high), but I draw on the store-house of my soul. And it goes a long way farther toward producing enjoyment when I take food only after awaiting the craving for it than when I partake of one of these fancy dishes, like this fine Thasian wine that fortune has put in my way and I am drinking without the promptings of thirst.
7. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 2.23.1 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
8. Ctesias, Fragments, 1
9. Epigraphy, Ig I , 78
10. Epigraphy, Ig I , 78

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aparkhai (first fruits)	Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 237
athena, on rhodes, archaeology of	Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 237
athena, on rhodes, lindia	Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 237
athena, on rhodes	Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 237
athenaeus (author), fragmentary writers and	Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 278
athenaeus (author), framing language	Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 278
athenaeus (author)	Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 278
athens/athenians	Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 278
coinage, of rhodes	Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 237
ctesias of cnidus	Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 278
ctesippus	Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 278
decadence, processes of	Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 278
diodorus siculus	Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 278
effeminacy	Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 278
eskhara	Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 237
historiography, hellenistic	Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 278
insular	Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 237
islands, in the aegean	Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 237
lindos, city	Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 237
ninyas (king of assyria)	Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 278
orientalism	Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 278
persians	Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 278
pleasure	Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 278
pro kharisteria, prokhaireteria	Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 237
rhodes	Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 237
sacrifice, fireless	Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 237
sacrifice, fireless meat	Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 237
sacrifice, meat vs. vegetables	Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 237
sacrifice, proskharaios thysia	Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 237
sardanapalus (king of assyria)	Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 278
straton (king of sidon)	Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 278
votives, votive offerings, interpretations of'	Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007) 237