1. Occatio comes not from occaecatum, but from occa, a hoe.

1. Most of Cato’s De Agricultura (De Re Rustled) survives.

2. In his poem Works and Days. Homer (Odyssey, Book XXIV) actually says that Odysseus found his father ‘alone on the vineyard terrace digging round a plant’.

3. Four times consul, censor, ended Samnite War (290), conquered Sabines (290), Senonian Gauls (284), Pyrrhus (275), Lucanians (274), triumphed 290, 275.

1. Traditionally venerated as dictator and conqueror of the Aequi in 458 B.C.

1. By Xenophon (c. 430-c. 354 B.C.). Cicero translated this in his youth. Cyrus, the younger son of the Persian king Darius II, was killed at Cunaxa (401); Xenophon’s mercenaries were his allies. His cooperation with the Spartan general and statesman Lysander (d. 395 B.C.) had contributed to the defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War.

2. Marcus Valerius Corvinus (or Corvus) – six times consul 348–301 B.C., dictator 342, 301, believed to have defeated the Gauls (349), Volscians (346), Samnites (343). people of Cales (335), Aequi (300), and Etruscans (299).