Horace attributes their origin to the festive meetings and exuberant mirth of the harvest-home among a primitive, strong, and cheerful race of Husbandmen.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
Our Lord Himself, in the parable of the Wicked Husbandmen, makes even a heavier accusation against the Jews, intimating, as He there does, that they rejected Him not because they did not recognise Him, but because they did.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
The Dhungers-in the same class-the Husbandmen of South Behar, bring us down to the vicinity of the population next to be noticed; a population which is generally considered with reference to the nations, tribes, and families of Southern rather than Northern India.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham