Columella Res Rustica 3.5.2

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

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[2] Prudentis autem coloni est ex deteriori terra potius in meliorem, quam ex meliore in deteriorem transferre. Propter quod mediocritas in electione loci maxime probatur, quoniam in confinio boni malique posita est. Sive enim postmodum necessitas postulaverit¹tempestiva semina ieiuno ²³⁴⁵⁶⁷ solo committere, non magnam sentient⁸differentiam, cum ex mediocri materia ⁹in exilem translata sunt; sive laetior ager conserendus est, longe celerius in ubertate coalescunt.

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. seruerit acM, ei in marg. A.

3. quam om. SAacM, vett. edd.

4. quod S.

5. spinae SA1.

6. si in peius] si impetus SA: sint priusquam c, edd. ante Gesn.: et fractae sunt priusquam in marg. A: et fractae priusquam M.

7. postulat SA1: postularit A2a.

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