Columella Res Rustica 3.17.3

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

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[3] Hanc ergo prudentissimi agricolae negaverunt conseri debere, nec tamen sententiae suae rationem nobis prodiderunt; videlicet quia ipsis in re rustica multum callentibus prompta erat et ante oculos ¹²³⁴⁵ paene exposita. Omnis enim fecundus pampinus intra quintam aut sextam gemmam fructu exuberat, reliqua parte quamvis longissima vel cessat vel perexiguos ostendit racemos. Quam ob causam sterilitas cacuminis iure ab antiquis incusata est. Malleolus autem sic ab iisdem pangebatur ut novello sarmento pars aliqua veteris haereret.

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

1. propagari Gesn., Schn.: propagare codd.

2. vite S, Schn.: parte Ald., Gesn.: om. AacM, vett. edd.

3. distet SAacM: distent edd.

4. convenire M: convenirent SAac.

5. seu SAcM: sive a, ei vulgo. a Isidore (Orig. XVII. 5. 7) defines sagitta in the same terms; but Pliny has a different explanation (N.H. XVII. 156), tertium genus adiectum etiamnum expeditius sine calce, quod

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