"Portam itineri dici longissimam esse."
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W. D. Hooper & H. B. Ash, tr., On Agriculture (Harvard University Press, 1993). Bk. 1, ch. 2
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Marcus Terentius Varro
Marcus Terentius Varro (116 BC – 27 BC) was a Roman scholar and philosopher. He is believed to have written more than 600 volumes, but of these only three volumes on agriculture, five on the Latin language, and a few fragments have survived.
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