Columella Res Rustica 1.2.5

ed. Harrison Boyd Ash, ed. E. S. Forster, ed. Edward H. Heffner

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Res Rustica. Columella. ed. Harrison Boyd Ash, ed. E. S. Forster, ed. Edward H. Heffner. London. 1941-1955.

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Current edition Perseus

Res Rustica. Books I-IX (Columella. On agriculture, Volume 1-2. Ash, Harrison Boyd; Foster, Edward Seymour; Heffner, Edward H., editors. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1941.)

Notes on the current edition

Res Rustica

1.
2. subriserit vel surriserit R plerique: subscripserit vulgo.
3. aliis cultis (deest codd.) Gesn.: aliis ac cultis Schn.
4. vinetisque R, plerique edd.
5. quadripedum SAa, Lundstrōm. a Not found in Cato as now extant; but cf. the sentiment of Cato, 2, and especially 5. 2, where the overseer is enjoined not to consider himself wiser than his master. Pliny (N.H. XVIII. 36), after citing the instructions of Cato as to the qualifications for an overseer, considers it sufficient to add