Columella Res Rustica 3.13.12

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

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4. priore codd., superiore edd.
5. monendo om. SA, vett. edd.: movendo ac.
6. qua om. SAac.
7. greeae ehi littere (X in marg.) S: X om. AacM.
8. decusabimus SAac: densavimus M. a II. 2. 25, 4. 3. b "Middle " as the meaning here of latus (side) is defended by Gesner and accepted generally by other commentators. c This measuring device is not mentioned by other writers, though Isidore (Orig. XX. 15. 3) says that the Spaniards gave the name ciconia to a well sweep (tolleno) because the motion of the sweep, in drawing water, resembled the actions of the stork. Palladius (II. 10. 4) speaks of the use of the virga alone as a measure of the depth of trenched ground. It appears that the ancient ciconia here mentioned was in the form of the letter T, standing, like a stork, on one leg; though
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