Quid enim refert, utrum propter oves, an propter aves fructus capias? Anne dulcior est fructus apud te ex bubulo pecore, unde apes nascuntur, quam ex apibus, quae ad villam Sei in alvariis opus faciunt? Et num pluris tu e villa illic natos verres lanio vendis, quam hinc apros macellario Seius? Qui minus ego, inquit Axius, istas habere possum in Reatina villa? Nisi si apud Seium Siculum fit mel, Corsicum in Reatino; et hic aprum glas cum pascit empticia, facit pinguem, illic gratuita exilem.
For if you get a revenue from flocks, what does it matter whether they are flocks of sheep or of birds? Why, is the revenue sweeter on your place from oxen which give birth to bees than it is from the bees which are busy at their task in the hives of Seiuss villa? And do you get more from the butcher for the boars born on your place there than Seius does from the market-man for the wild boars from his place? Well, replied Axius, what is there to prevent me from keeping these at my villa at Reate? You dont think that honey is Sicilian if it is produced on Seiuss place, and Corsican if it is produced at Reate? And that if mast which has to be bought feeds a boar on his place it makes him fat, while that which is had for nothing on my place makes him thin?
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