Columella, Res Rustica, ed. Harrison Boyd Ash, ed. E. S. Forster, ed. Edward H. Heffner, 3.8.2

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[2] Ger- ¹²³⁴⁵⁶ maniam decoravit altissimorum hominum exercitibus; sed et alias gentes non in totum fraudavit praecipuae staturae viris. Nam et Cicero ⁷testis est Romanum fuisse civem Naevium Pollionem pede ⁸longiorem quam quemquam longissimum; et nuper ipsi videre potuimus in apparatu pompae Circensium ludorum Iudaeae gentishominemproceriorem celsissimo Germano.

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. naturali c.

2. quae spectandae sint qualitas in eo solo quod vineis destinaveris post posse inserunt SAc, et in rubr. M.

3. reperiamus S: repperiamus A.

4. eadem A.

5. generandi SA, vett. edd.

6. Curiatiae edd.: aequitiae SA: equitiae acM. a Pliny (N.H. VII. 33) mentions several cases of multiple births, including the famous sets of triplets, the Roman Horatii and the Alban Curiatii (Livy, I. 24-26). A woman in the Peloponnesus, he says, four times gave birth to quintu-

Columella Res Rustica 3.8.2

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