Columella Res Rustica 7.4.8

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

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[8] eoque liquamine tonsa ovis imbuitur,¹at que ubi per triduum dilibuto tergore medicamina ²³⁴⁵⁶⁷ perhibent, quarto die, si est vicinia maris, ad litus deducta mersatur: si minus, caelestis ⁸aqua sub dio ⁹salibus in hunc usum durata paulum decoquitur, eaque grex perluitur. Hoc modo curatum pecus toto anno scabrum fieri non posse Celsus affirmat: nec dubium est, quin etiam ob eam rem lana mollior atque prolixior renascatur.

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

3. capillos S: capillus Aac.

4. detonseris c: detoderis S1: detonderis S2: detodoris A.

5. excocti S2: excoleti AR.

6. imbuitur A2R: inbitur S1: imbitur A1.

7. medicamina Ald.: media' SAR. a Galbanum was the resinous sap of an umbelliferous plant (Bubon galbanum) growing in Syria.

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