| 1. Theophrastus, Research On Plants, 1.4.3, 1.9.5 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •italia, laudes italiae (“praises of italia”) Found in books: Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 103 |
| 2. Cato, Marcus Porcius, Origines, None (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •italia, laudes italiae (“praises of italia”) Found in books: Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 92 |
| 3. Cicero, On Old Age, 2.5 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 92 |
| 4. Cicero, Pro Cluentio, 24, 22 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 92 |
| 5. Varro, On Agriculture, 1.2.1-1.2.3, 1.2.5-1.2.8, 1.2.11, 1.3, 1.7.6-1.7.8, 1.7.10, 1.8.1-1.8.2, 1.9.1-1.9.3, 1.10.1, 1.13.6, 1.28.1, 1.41.6, 1.50.2, 2.3.9 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •italia, laudes italiae (“praises of italia”) Found in books: Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 77, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 98, 99, 103, 107 |
6. Polybius, Histories, 2.19.7, 2.21.7-2.21.8 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •italia, laudes italiae (“praises of italia”) Found in books: Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 92| 2.19.7. διαγενομένων δὲ πάλιν ἐτῶν δέκα παρεγένοντο Γαλάται μετὰ μεγάλης στρατιᾶς, πολιορκήσοντες τὴν Ἀρρητίνων πόλιν. 2.21.7. μετὰ δὲ τοῦτον τὸν φόβον ἔτει πέμπτῳ, Μάρκου Λεπέδου στρατηγοῦντος, κατεκληρούχησαν ἐν Γαλατίᾳ Ῥωμαῖοι τὴν Πικεντίνην προσαγορευομένην χώραν, ἐξ ἧς νικήσαντες ἐξέβαλον τοὺς Σήνωνας προσαγορευομένους Γαλάτας, 2.21.8. Γαΐου Φλαμινίου ταύτην τὴν δημαγωγίαν εἰσηγησαμένου καὶ πολιτείαν, ἣν δὴ καὶ Ῥωμαίοις ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν φατέον ἀρχηγὸν μὲν γενέσθαι τῆς ἐπὶ τὸ χεῖρον τοῦ δήμου διαστροφῆς, αἰτίαν δὲ καὶ τοῦ μετὰ ταῦτα πολέμου συστάντος αὐτοῖς πρὸς τοὺς προειρημένους. | 2.19.7. Again, ten years afterwards, the Gauls appeared in force and besieged Arretium. 2.21.7. Five years after this alarm, in the consulship of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, the Romans divided among their citizens the territory in Gaul known as Picenum, from which they had ejected the Senones when they conquered them. 2.21.8. Gaius Flaminius was the originator of this popular policy, which we must pronounce to have been, one may say, the first step in the demoralization of the populace, as well as the cause of the war with the Gauls which followed. |
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| 7. Varro, On The Latin Language, 5.31-5.32, 5.100 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •italia, laudes italiae (“praises of italia”) Found in books: Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 87, 92 |
| 8. Vitruvius Pollio, On Architecture, 6.1.10-6.1.11 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •italia, laudes italiae (“praises of italia”) Found in books: Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 88 |
9. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 1.26.3, 1.31.8, 1.37.2, 8.79.3 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •italia, laudes italiae (“praises of italia”) Found in books: Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 78, 89, 90, 91 | 1.37.2. To what grain-bearing country, indeed, watered, not with rivers, but with rains from heaven, do the plains of Campania yield, in which I have seen fields that produce even three crops in a year, summer's harvest following upon that of winter and autumn's upon that of summer? To what olive orchards are those of the Messapians, the Daunians, the Sabines and many others inferior? To what vineyards those of Tyrrhenia and the Alban and the Falernian districts, where the soil is wonderfully kind to vines and with the least labour produces the finest grapes in the greatest abundance? 8.79.3. And many other fathers, some for greater and others for lesser faults, have shown neither mercy nor compassion to their sons. For this reason I do not feel, as I said, that this account should be rejected as improbable. But the following considerations, which are arguments of no small weight and are not lacking in probability, draw me in the other direction and lead me to agree with the first tradition. In the first place, after the death of Cassius his house was razed to the ground and to this day its site remains vacant, except for that part of it on which the state afterwards built the temple of Tellus, which stands in the street leading to the Carinae; and again, his goods were confiscated by the state, which dedicated first-offerings for them in various temples, especially the bronze statues to Ceres, which by their inscriptions show of whose possessions they are the first-offerings. |
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| 10. Horace, Odes, 2.3.8 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •italia, laudes italiae (“praises of italia”) Found in books: Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 90 |
| 11. Livy, History, 2.41.1, 21.25.2 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •italia, laudes italiae (“praises of italia”) Found in books: Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 78, 92 |
12. Ovid, Fasti, 1.657 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •italia, laudes italiae (“praises of italia”) Found in books: Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 78| 1.657. Ter quater evolvi sigtes tempora fastos, | 1.657. But nowhere found the Day of Sowing: |
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| 13. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 3.41, 3.112, 15.8, 18.3, 35.15, 37.202-37.203 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •italia, laudes italiae (“praises of italia”) Found in books: Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 78, 89, 90, 92 |
14. Columella, De Re Rustica, 3.3.2 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •italia, laudes italiae (“praises of italia”) Found in books: Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 92| 3.3.2. nam de arbusto etiam inter auctores non exigua pugna fuit, abnuente Saserna genus id ruris, Tremelio maxime probante. Sed et hanc sententiam suo loco aestimabimus. note target=" | 3.3.2. for in the matter of ground planted with trees for the support of vines there has been no little dispute even among authorities, Saserna being unfavourable to this kind of land, and Tremelius approving it most highly. But we shall make an appraisal of this opinion in its proper place. Meanwhile those devoted to the study of agriculture must be informed of one thing first of all â that the return from vineyards is a very rich one. And to pass over the old-time fertility of the land, of which Marcus Cato long ago, and Terentius Varro more recently, recorded that each iugerum of vineyard yielded six hundred urnae of wine â for Varro so declares most emphatically in the first book of his Res Rusticae â and that this was the customary yield not in one district alone but also in the country around Faventia and in the Ager Gallicus, which is now annexed to Picenum; |
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15. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 48.12.5 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •italia, laudes italiae (“praises of italia”) Found in books: Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 92 | 48.12.5. Both money and soldiers came to them also from Gallia Togata, which had been included by this time in the district of Italy in order that no one else, under the plea of ruling that province, should keep soldiers south of the Alps. |
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| 16. Servius, Commentary On The Aeneid, 10.198 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •italia, laudes italiae (“praises of italia”) Found in books: Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 92 |
17. Vergil, Georgics, 2.136-2.139, 2.150, 2.181-2.193 Tagged with subjects: •italia, laudes italiae (“praises of italia”) Found in books: Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 89, 90| 2.136. sed neque Medorum, silvae ditissima, terra, 2.137. nec pulcher Ganges atque auro turbidus Hermus 2.138. laudibus Italiae certent, non Bactra neque Indi 2.139. totaque turiferis Panchaia pinguis harenis. 2.150. bis gravidae pecudes, bis pomis utilis arbos. 2.181. Palladia gaudent silva vivacis olivae. 2.182. Indicio est tractu surgens oleaster eodem 2.183. plurimus et strati bacis silvestribus agri. 2.184. At quae pinguis humus dulcique uligine laeta, 2.185. quique frequens herbis et fertilis ubere campus— 2.186. qualem saepe cava montis convalle solemus 2.187. despicere; huc summis liquuntur rupibus amnes 2.188. felicemque trahunt limum—quique editus austro 2.189. et filicem curvis invisam pascit aratris: 2.190. hic tibi praevalidas olim multoque fluentis 2.191. sufficiet Baccho vitis, hic fertilis uvae, 2.192. hic laticis, qualem pateris libamus et auro, 2.193. inflavit cum pinguis ebur Tyrrhenus ad aras, | |
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| 18. Valerius Maximus, Memorable Deeds And Sayings, 6.3.16 Tagged with subjects: •italia, laudes italiae (“praises of italia”) Found in books: Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 78 |
19. Strabo, Geography, 5.3.10, 6.4.1 Tagged with subjects: •italia, laudes italiae (“praises of italia”) Found in books: Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 89, 90 | 5.3.10. As to the places situated on either side of the Via Latina, those on the right are between it and the Via Appia; of their number are Setia and Signia, which produce wine, that of Setia being one of the dearest wines, and that called Signium the best for strengthening the stomach. Before this are Privernum, Cora, Suessa, Trapontium, Velitrae, Aletrium, and also Fregellae, by which the Liris flows, which discharges itself [into the sea] near Minturnae. Fregellae, though now a village, was formerly a considerable city, and the chief of the surrounding places we have just named. Even now their inhabitants throng to it on market days, and for the performance of certain religious solemnities. Its defection from the Romans was the cause of its ruin. Both these, and also the cities lying on the Via Latina and beyond, situated in the territories of the Hernici, Aequi, and Volsci, were for the most part founded by the Romans. To the left of the Via Latina, the cities between it and the Via Valeria, are, Gabii, standing in the Via Praenestina, it possesses a stone-quarry, in greater demand at Rome than any other, and is at an equal distance of about 100 stadia between Rome and Praeneste. Then Praeneste, of which we shall have occasion presently to speak. Then, in the mountains above Praeneste, Capitulum, a small city of the Hernici, and Anagnia, a considerable city; Cereate, and Sora, by which the river Liris flows as it passes on to Fregellae, and Minturnae. After these there are other places, and finally, Venafrum, from whence comes the finest oil. This city is situated on a high hill by the foot of which flows the Volturnus, which passing by Casilinum, discharges itself [into the sea] at a city bearing the same name as itself. Aesernia and Alliphae, cities of the Samnites, the former was destroyed in the Marsian war, the other still remains. 6.4.1. Such, indeed, is the size and such the character of Italy. And while I have already mentioned many things which have caused the Romans at the present time to be exalted to so great a height, I shall now indicate the most important things. One is, that, like an island, Italy is securely guarded by the seas on all sides, except in a few regions, and even these are fortified by mountains that are hardly passable. A second is that along most of its coast it is harborless and that the harbors it does have are large and admirable. The former is useful in meeting attacks from the outside, while the latter is helpful in making counter-attacks and in promoting an abundant commerce. A third is that it is characterized by many differences of air and temperature, on which depend the greater variation, whether for better or for worse, in animals, plants, and, in short, everything that is useful for the support of life. Its length extends from north to south, generally speaking, and Sicily counts as an addition to its length, already so great. Now mild temperature and harsh temperature of the air are judged by heat, cold, and their intermediates; and so from this it necessarily follows that what is now Italy, situated as it is between the two extremes and extending to such a length, shares very largely in the temperate zone and in a very large number of ways. And the following is still another advantage which has fallen to the lot of Italy; since the Apennine Mountains extend through the whole of its length and leave on both sides plains and hills which bear fine fruits, there is no part of it which does not enjoy the blessings of both mountain and plain. And add also to this the size and number of its rivers and its lakes, and, besides these, the fountains of water, both hot and cold, which in many places nature has provided as an aid to health, and then again its good supply of mines of all sorts. Neither can one worthily describe Italy's abundant supply of fuel, and of food both for men and beast, and the excellence of its fruits. Further, since it lies intermediate between the largest races on the one hand, and Greece and the best parts of Libya on the other, it not only is naturally well-suited to hegemony, because it surpasses the countries that surround it both in the valor of its people and in size, but also can easily avail itself of their services, because it is close to them. |
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