Thus I grow little corn merely because the good fathers will not let me grow a great deal.

I cultivate first one piece of land, then another.

On my farm, as throughout the Agro Romano, cultivation is but a passing accident; and so long as this continues, the country will be unhealthy.
"I raise cattle, which, as you will presently see, is sometimes a profitable pursuit, sometimes quite the contrary.

On the whole of my farm I have no shelter for my cattle.

I asked the monks to build me some sheds, offering to pay an increased rent in proportion to outlay.