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Oeconomicus (Xenophon)
Oeconomicus
also: Oeconomicus
Xenophon's Socratic dialogue on estate and household management, which Cato praises for its account of farming and its story of Cyrus the Younger's garden.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of the Gods §2.18 as Socrates asks in Xenophon
An allusion to Xenophon's Memorabilia (1.4), where Socrates argues from the design of the human body and mind to a designing intelligence in the universe. Balbus adapts the argument for Stoic providence.