Thrift

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A farm is like a man-however great the income, if there is extravagance but little is left.

Cato the Elder

De Agricultura

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Topic

Thrift Money management

Author

Cato the Elder

Source

De Agricultura

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Latin

Time

160 BC 160s BC 2nd century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Cato the Elder. De Agricultura [On Agriculture]. c. 160 BC, ch. 1, sect. 6.

Current Citation

Cato the Elder. "On Agriculture." Cato and Varro: On Agriculture, translated by W. D. Hooper and H. B. Ash. Harvard University Press, 1934, ch. 1, sect. 6.