Columella Res Rustica 8.17.7

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

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[7] ut clausi quam minime custodiam sentiant. Hac ratione stabulis ordinatis aquatile pecus inducemus; sitque nobis antiquissimum meminisse etiam in fluviatili negotio, quod in terreno praccipitur: Et ¹²³ quid quaeque ferat regio.⁴Neque enim si velimus, ut in mari non nunquam conspeximus, in vivario multitudinem multorum ⁵pascere queamus, cum sit mollissimum genus, et servitutis indignantissimum.

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. longos ac: longis SA.

2. praefieantur S: praeficentur A: prefingetur a: praefigentur c.

3. verbenis algae ac: velvenis algae S: velvenis ac leve a It is doubtful whether verbenis can bear the meaning of " vegetation " in general and the reading is perhaps wrong.

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