Columella, Res Rustica, ed. Harrison Boyd Ash, ed. E. S. Forster, ed. Edward H. Heffner, 1.pr.32

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[32] Accedit huc, quod illi, quem nos perfectum esse volumus agricolam, si quidem artis consummatae non sit, nec ¹in universa rerum natura sagacitatem Democriti vel Pythagorae fuerit consecutus, et in motibus astrorum ventorumque Metonis providentiam vel Eudoxi et in pecoris cultu doctrinam Chironis ac ²³ Melampodis, et in agrorum solique molitione Triptolemi aut Aristaei prudentiam, multum tamen profecerit si usu Tremelios Sasernasque et Stolones nostros aequaverit.

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. Catulo R nonnulli, Ald., Gesn.: Catullo R pauci.

3. sic vulgo: consummatae sit et Lundstrōm cum vett. edd. et codd. vt videtur (praeter consummataest S). a Cf. Cicero, Ad Fam. IX. 21. 1. b Five famous Roman orators, younger contemporaries of Cicero. c Homer. d Three celebrated Greek painters of the fourth century B.C. c I.e. the chryselephantine statue of Zeus at Olympia and of Athena in the Parthenon. f Bryaxis, Lysippus and Praxiteles (all of the fourth cent. B.C.) and Polyclitus (fifth cent, B.C.) were, like Phidias who overtopped them, distinguished Greek statuaries.

Columella Res Rustica 1.pr.32

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