He plants the trees to serve another age,as our Caecilius Statius says in his Young Comrades.
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But come now—to pass over these divine pursuits
—I can point out to you Roman farmers in the Sabine
country, friends and neighbours of mine, who are
scarcely ever absent from the field while the more
important operations of husbandry, as sowing,
reaping, and storing the crops, are going on. Although this interest of theirs is less remarkable in
the case of annual crops,—for no one is so old as to
think that he cannot live one more year—yet these
same men labour at things which they know will
not profit them in the least.
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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