Columella Res Rustica 1.pr.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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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

1. violentia SA, Lundstrōm: intemperantia R, plerique edd.
2. tractaverit R, plerique edd. a Cf. Lucretius, V. 826-827, sed quia finem aliquam pariendi debet habere, destitit ut mulier spatio defessa vetusto.
3. So Pliny (N.H. XVIII. 19-21), who attributes the former plenty to cultivation of the soil by the hands of generals, consuls, tribunes, and senators.
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