Columella Res Rustica 4.15.4

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

1. praeducitur c.
2. resecta SAacM, vett. edd. a I.e. missing vines must be replaced. b The mergus, " layer," was so called because, without being separated from the nurse vine, it " dives " (mergit) into the ground and then reappears, like a diving bird (mergus). Cf. Palladius, III. 16. 1, Mergum dicimus, quoties velut arcus supra terram relinquitur, alia parte vitis infossa. c I.e. the bend under ground. d Closer to the parent vine.
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