Columella Res Rustica 2.20.5

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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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. rostratis ac: nostratibus SAR, vett. edd.
2. nubilarium Ald., Gesn., Schn.
3. solidibus SA.
4. traheam Lundström: trahere SAR: traham vulgo.
5. cuduntur SA, Schn.: tunduntur R, Lundström, et vulgo. a Cf. Columella on olives (XII. 52. 18): Plerique agricolae crediderunt, si sub tecto baca deponatur, oleum in tabulato grandescere; quod tam falsum est quam in area frumenta crescere. b Commentators are uncertain as to the nature and use of these implements. Festus (111 L) defines mergae as forks for lifting grain; so called because in the hands of the reaper they plunge into the grain just as diving birds (mergi) dive
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