Columella Res Rustica 2.2.12

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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Current edition Perseus

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.)

Notes on the current edition

Res Rustica

1. sed patentes latius Schn.: sed et petentes latius Ald., Gesn.
2. humum M. a The text here translated accepts the emendation of Ragnar Sobel (" En Columellakonjektur," Apophoreta Gotoburgensia Vilelmo Lundstrōm Oblata Gothenburg, 1936, pp. 169-170), reversing the illogical position of covered and open ditches as found in most of the manuscripts and in