• FARM

1. s. rusticum praedium (the proper word; opposed to urbanum praedium = property in houses): fundus (an estate usually with one or more buildings attached to it): villa (the country-house, with or without land): ager: rus (PROP., country, opposed to town; hence, by metonymy = landed estate. In this meaning, as well as in that of country, rus, rure are mostly without a preposition [☞ Plaut., Merc., 3, 3, 25; Capt., 1, 1, 10] unless they have an adjective or possessive pronoun with them, when the preposition is mostly, but not always, expressed; cum in rura sua venerunt, Cic.; in Albense rus, Plin.; in Veliterno rure, Plin.; but also nugari rure paterno, Hor.; rure dapes parat ille suo, Ov.). A farm near the town, praedium suburbanum: a small farm, praediolum, agellus; also hortuli (☞ Cic., Eclog., p. 157): a farm-house, villa: a small farm-house, villula: to go about one’s farms, fundos obire: to till a farm, praedium colere or colere et tueri: the profits of a farm, fructus praedii.

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• v. To cultivate a farm, agrum colere (general term). To be very fond of farming, voluptatibus agricolarum incredibiliterdelectari (Cic.): a treatise on farming, liber de rebus rusticis, or de agricultura, scriptus.
• To give a certain sum for tolls, taxes, etc., in the hope of making profit by them, conducere (general term): redimere (with the intention of re-letting them in small portions). To farm the taxes, vectigalia redimere: to wish to farm them, ad vectigalia accedere.
• To lease or let (the revenues, etc.): locare: elocare (e.g., gentem Judaeorum = ejus vectigalia, Cic., Flacc., 28, fin.).