Columella Res Rustica 2.10.26

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

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[26] Seritur ut deinceps praecipiemus. Locum, in quo Medicam proximo vere saturus es, proscindito circa Kalendas Octobris et eum tota hieme putrescere sinito; deinde Kalendis Februariis diligenter iterato et lapides omnes eligito ¹glaebasque offringito; postea circa Martium mensem tertiato et occato. Cum sic terram subegeris, in morem horti areas latas pedum denum, longas ²³⁴⁵⁶ pedum quinquagenum facito, ut per semitas aqua ministrari possit aditusque utraque parte runcantibus pateat.

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. napis AR, omnes ante Gesn.

3. qui AR, vett. edd.

4. diximus M.

5. Medica, quod cum semel seritur, decem annis durat; quod per annum deinde recte quater Ald., Gesn., Schn.

6. eligito SAR, vett. edd., Schn.: elegito Lundstrōm: egerito Ald., Gesn. a Medic clover or lucem (alfalfa) is said to have come to Italy from Greece, where it was introduced from Media at the

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