Excerpt from The Classical Review, Vol. 3 The editors here Object that a ploughman who didn't know the stars would be ignorant Of his own trade, and quote Hesiod and Vergil to prove it. But Persius wasn't thinking of the gentleman farmer for whom those poets wrote; he wants to make his ploughman as ignorant as possible suppose a clodhopper in cowhides, who didn't know what the Morning Star was, should want to be pilot 2 None but slaves were ploughmen in Persius' time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.