Columella Res Rustica 3.14

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

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Res Rustica. Columella. ed. Harrison Boyd Ash, ed. E. S. Forster, ed. Edward H. Heffner. London. 1941-1955.

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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

1. supposuimus ac.
2. deducit S1AcM, et omnes ante Gesn.
3. et fusus SAac: effusus M. a The line and plummet, sometimes suspended from the apex of a triangular frame, formed a simple level (libella). b I.e., the new land, when so trenched in successive strips of the same dimensions, comes gradually to resemble a field that is kept in cultivation, though temporarily out of production.
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