Columella Res Rustica 2.4.9

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

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[9] Colles pinguis soli peracta satione trimestrium¹mense Martio, si vero tepor caeli siccitasque regionis suade- ²³⁴⁵ bit, Februario statim proscindendi sunt. Deinde ab Aprile medio usque in solstitium iterandi, tertiandique Septembri circa aequinoctium; ac totidem operis, quot uliginosi campi, excolitur iugerum talis agri.

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. solis codd.

3. aliquibus R pauci, edd. ante Lundström.

4. statim R pauci, edd. ante Gesn.

5. trimestri Ald., Gesn., Schn. a About three-fifths of an acre. b Varro says (R.R. I. 29. 3) that the ridges between the furrows are called porcae because that soil produces (porricit) the grain.

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