Columella Res Rustica 1.6.17

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

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[17] Id autem falsissimum est; neque enim hoc facto expelluntur animalia, sed immiscentur totis acervis. Qui si maneant immoti, summis tantum partibus infestentur,¹quoniam infra mensuram palmi non nascitur curculio; longeque praestat id solum, quod iam vitiatum est, quam totum periculo subicere. Nam ²³⁴ cum exiget usus,⁵facile est eo sublato, quod vitiatum erit, integro inferiore uti. Sed haec, etsi extrinsecus, non tamen intempestive videor hoc loco rettulisse.

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

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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.)

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Res Rustica

2. dein SA, Lundstrōm.

3. possit SAR, vett. edd.: possis Schn. in not., Lundstrōm: possunt vulgo.

4. infestantur R, Ald., Gesn., Schn. a Varro (R.R. I. 57. 2) speaks of the use of pits (sin) in Cappadocia and Thrace, and of straw-bottomed wells (putei) in certain sections of Spain. Wheat, he says, has been known to keep in this way for as long as fifty years, and millet for more than a hundred; cf. Pliny, N.H. XVIII. 306. The

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