An Apology Owed to Metatron

Metatron Somewhat Incorrect in Detail · An Apology Owed to Metatron

Was I Wrong About This Ancient Roman Fact?
Metatron History | 10 March 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGQk5XQdD2Q

Overall, I think I owe you an apology for 2022.

I wrote then:

16:22 I looked up Varro, De Re Rustica, and you seem to have given a fake or incomplete reference.

First there are three books. Within each book there are both chapters and paragraphs - what you cite is the length of a paragraph, so should have given three numerals.

I have been over 1.1 and it had no § 11, and I have also been over 1.12, all 4 §§.

I would say that you have faked the reference, since 1.12 does talk of healthy and unhealthy places to put buildings.

None of the paragraphs say what you say, though.

I do not know why I said this in total confidence, but I think I came across a translation, and it doesn't translate as on the Lacus Curtius site currently.

Looking it up again:

Advertendum etiam, siqua erunt loca palustria, et propter easdem causas, et quod crescunt animalia quaedam minuta, quae non possunt oculi consequi, et per aera intus in corpus per os ac nares perveniunt atque efficiunt difficilis morbos. Fundanius, Quid potero, inquit, facere, si istius modi mi fundus hereditati obvenerit, quo minus pestilentia noceat? Istuc vel ego possum respondere, inquit Agrius; vendas, quot assibus possis, aut si nequeas, relinquas.

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Precautions must also be taken in the neighbourhood of swamps, both for the reasons given, and because there are bred certain minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, which float in the air and enter the body through the mouth and nose and there cause serious diseases." "What can I do," asked Fundanius, "to prevent disease if I should inherit a farm of that kind?" "Even I can answer that question," replied Agrius; "sell it for the highest cash price; or if you can't sell it, abandon it."

Sure, you are definitely right as per the site Lacus Curtius.

[Side issue:

6:08 The doctor with the plague mask was not Medieval but 18th C.

My bad, already 17th C.

The garments were first mentioned by a physician to King Louis XIII of France, Charles de Lorme, who wrote in a 1619 plague outbreak in Paris that he developed an outfit made of Moroccan goat leather, including boots, breeches, a long coat, hat, and gloves modeled after a soldier's canvas gown that went from the neck to the ankle.
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The Genevan physician, Jean-Jacques Manget, in his 1721 work Treatise on the Plague written just after the Great Plague of Marseille, describes the costume supposedly worn by plague doctors in Rome in 1656.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor_costume]