Rural life
This is a letter from the Roman writer Pliny to the emperor Hadrian:
Agrorum enim, quos in eadem regione possideo, locatio,
cum alioqui CCCC excedat, adeo non potest differri, ut proximam putationem novus
colonus facere debeat.
(Pliny the Younger, Letters, X.8.5)
The farms, which I own in this region, earn more than 400,000
sesterces, and I can't put off letting them, not least because new tenants need
to be there to take care of the vine pruning, which must be done soon.