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
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conficiatur SA.
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et rigetur SA et R aliquot: extricetur Lundstrōm: extringetur R plerique, vett. edd.: aspergatur Ursinus: irrigetur Schoettgen, et maluit Gesn.: extergatur vulgo.
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prati subiacentem Favonio Lundström, praeeunte Schn. in not.: pratis obiacentem fabonio (b in v mut. S) SA: pratis obiacentem favonio R: potius adiacentium fabalium vulgo.
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lecta R, et vulgo ante Schn.
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trituris Ald., Gesn., Schn.
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ortum R, et vulgo ante Luivdström.
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demetur SA.
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incesserint R, edd. ante Lundström.
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propter om. SA.
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rostratis ac: nostratibus SAR, vett. edd.
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nubilarium Ald., Gesn., Schn.
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solidibus SA.
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traheam Lundström: trahere SAR: traham vulgo.
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cuduntur SA, Schn.: tunduntur R, Lundström, et vulgo. a Cf. Columella on olives (XII. 52. 18): Plerique agricolae crediderunt, si sub tecto baca deponatur, oleum in tabulato grandescere; quod tam falsum est quam in area frumenta crescere. b Commentators are uncertain as to the nature and use of these implements. Festus (111 L) defines mergae as forks for lifting grain; so called because in the hands of the reaper they plunge into the grain just as diving birds (mergi) dive
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