Learn Your Vowels
Created on: March 23rd, 2009
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When the head of a household arrives at his estate, after he has prayed to the family god, he must go round his farm on a tour of inspection on the very same day, if that is possible, if not, then on the next day. When he has found out how his farm has been cultivated and which jobs have been done and which have not been done, then on the next day after that he must call in his manager and ask him which are the jobs that have been done and which remain, and whether they were done on time, and whether what still has to be done can be done, and how much wine and grain and anything else has been produced. When he has found this out, he must make a calculation of the labor and the time taken. If the work doesn't seem to him sufficient, and the manager starts to say how hard he tried, but the slaves weren't any good, and the weather was awful, and the slaves ran away, and he was required to carry out some of the public works, then when he has finished mentioning these and all sorts of other excuses, you must draw his attention to your calculations of the labor employed and time taken. If he claims that it rained all the time, there are all sorts of jobs that can be done in rainy weather -- washing wine-jars, coating them with pitch, digging a manure pit, cleaning seed, mending ropes or making new ones; the slaves ought to have been mending their patchwork cloaks and their hoods. On festival days they would be able to clean out old ditches, work on the public highway, prune the back brambles, dig up the garden, clear a meadow, tie bundles of sticks, remove thorns, grind barley and get on with cleaning. If he claims that the slaves have been ill, they needn't have been given such large rations. When you have found out all about these things to your satisfaction, make sure that all the work that remains to be done will be carried out... The head of the household [on his tour o
f inspection] should examine his herds and arrange a sale; he should sell the oil if the price makes it worthwhile, and any wine and rain that is surplus to needs; he should sell any old oxen, cattle, or sheep that are not up to standard, wool and hides, an old cart or old tools, an old slave, a sick slave -- anything else that is surplus to requirements. The head of the household ought to sell, and not to buy.
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