106BCE – 43BCE,Cicero,Cato Maior de Senectute 15.51:
Veniō nunc ad voluptātēsagricolārum, quibus ego incrēdibiliter dēlector; quae nec ūllā impediuntur senectūte et mihi ad sapientis vītam proximē videntur accēdere.
I turn now to the pleasuresof farmers, in which I am incredibly delighted. These [joys] are in no way hindered by old age, and they seem to me to come closest to the ideal life of a philosopher. (Variant translations: the pleasures “of farming” or “of agriculture.”)
“agricola”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"agricola", in Charles du Fresne du Cange,Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
