Columella Res Rustica 6.27.8

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

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[8] ne aut cum volent ineant aut, si id facere ¹²³ prohibeantur, cupidine sollieitati⁴noxam contrahant.⁵Itaque vel in longinqua pascua marem placet ablegari, vel ad praesepia contineri: eoque tempore, quo vocatur a feminis, roborandus est largo cibo, et appropinquante vere hordeo ervoque ⁶saginandus, ut veneri supersit, quantoque fortior inierit, firmiora semina praebeat futurae stirpi.

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. figurando S: figurandus AR.

2. ventrem S: vente A: ventum R.

3. aguntur SAR. a Vergil, Georg. III. 266 and 269-275. b The highest peak of the range of Mt. Ida. c A river of Bithynia (Strabo, XIV. 681). d The story of the impregnation of mares by the wind seems to be as old as Homer (Il. XVI. 150).

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