Columella Res Rustica 9.3.1

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

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[1] Quare revertamur ad ea, quae alveorum cultoribus magis apta sunt quot 1 genera sunt apium et quid 2 ex his optimum.3 Peripateticae sectae conditor Aristoteles in iis libris, quos de animalibus conscripsit, apium 4 examinum genera complura demonstrat, earumque alias 5 vastas sed glomerosas, ¹²³⁴⁵ easdemque nigras et hirsutas apes habent: alias ⁶minores quidem, sed aeque ⁷rotundas et fusci ⁸coloris horridique pili:

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. quot SA2: quod A1.

2. quid scripsi: quod A: quot S.

3. quot—optimum om. ac.

4. apium sive c: om. SAa.

5. aliaque SAac. a Son of Apollo and Cyrene, also said to have planted the first olive-tree. b Cea, or in Greek Ceos, an island, one of the Cyclades, near Cape Sunium. c A mountain in Attica near Athens. d Mythical king of Athens.

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