re: #168 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

It’s a Latin word derived from arare, which means “to plow” and is the source of our word “arable”. The Old English verb rian (also “to plow”) is cognate.

Specifically in this case:

The title is taken from an 1813 book by a Virginia planter and senator named John Taylor, who defended “the socioeconomic and political order of an agrarian republic,” according to one description.