\f1 \fs22 Fruit trees were also widely cultivated. The literary sources, especially \b \cf2 \ATXht13 Cato\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0
(234-149 BC) and \b \cf2 \ATXht13 Varro\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 (116-27 BC), have provided us with important treatises on agriculture, manuals that retained their relevance up until the advent of modern technology. The implements used for manual labor were sim
ilar to those of our own day: hoes, spades, rakes, sickles, etc. Fields were tilled principally with the simple plow without a moldboard, drawn by oxen. The carriage plow (plaumaratrum) was less common. Presses and millstones were frequently used for the