4 Therefore I shall write for you three handbooks to which you may turn whenever you wish to know, in a given case, how you ought to proceed in farming. 3 And I cannot allow the Sibyl to have uttered prophecies which benefited mankind not only while she lived, but even after she had passed away, and that too people whom she never knew - for so many years later we are wont officially to consult her books when we desire to know what we should do after some portent - and not do something, even while I am alive, to help my friends and kinsfolk. 2 Wherefore, since you have bought an estate and wish to make it profitable by good cultivation, and ask that I concern myself with the matter, I will make the attempt and in such wise as to advise you with regard to the proper practice not only while I live but even after my death. For my eightieth year admonishes me to gather up my pack before I set forth from life. P161 1 1 Had I possessed the leisure, Fundania, 1 I should write in a more serviceable form what now I must set forth as I can, reflecting that I must hasten for if man is a bubble, as the proverb has it, all the more so is an old man.
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