Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen [also], and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
Ver. 10. For he loved husbandry.] So did the ancient patriarchs and the old Romans, who held it commendation enough for a man to be called and counted a good ploughman; and sent for senators, yea, generals from the plough, as Cincinnatus, Senanus, and others. a Solomon saith that the king's throne is upheld by husbandry: and Socrates called it Amaltheae cornu, the horn of plenty.
a Cicero De Senect. Antoninus Pius was a great lover of husbandry.