Columella Res Rustica 1.pr.27

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

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[27] Et ut a pecoribus recedam, quorum in parte avium cohortalium et apium cura posita est, quis tanti studii fuit, ut super ista, quae enumeravimus, tot nosset ¹species insitionum, tot putationum, tot pomorum holerumque cultus exerceret, tot ²³ generibus ficorum sicut rosariis impenderet curam, cum a plerisque etiam maiora neglegantur,⁴quamquam et ista iam non minima vectigalia multis esse coeperint? ⁵Nam prata et salicta, genistaeque et harundines, quamvis tenuem nihilo minus aliquam desiderant industriam.

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. Numidiaque Lundstrōm: numidia codd., et plerique edd.: Numidiae Schn.

3. nosceret R. a In Asia Minor, south of the Propontis (Sea of Marrnara); now a part of Turkey. b On the sheep of Tarentum (in southern Italy) see VII. 4, and Palladius, XII (November) 13. 5.Sheep of this breed were covered with skins to protect their fine wool; cf. Varro, R.R. II. 2. 18, and Horace, Od. II. 6. 10.

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