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[27] quaerunt. Et ut a pecoribus recedam, quorum in parte avium cohortalium et apium cura posita est, quis tanti studii fuit, ut super ista, quae enumera-vimus, tot nosset 1species insitionum, tot putationum, tot pomorum holerumque cultus exerceret, tot 2 3 [p. 22] generibus ficorum sicut rosariis impenderet curam, cum a plerisque etiam maiora neglegantur,4quamquam et ista iam non minima vectigalia multis esse
2 Numidiaque LundstrÅm: numidia codd., et plerique edd.: Numidiae Schn.
3 nosceret R. a In Asia Minor, south of the Propontis (Sea of Marrnara); now a part of Turkey. b On the sheep of Tarentum (in southern Italy) see VII. 4, and Palladius, XII (November) 13. 5.Sheep of this breed were covered with skins to protect their fine wool; cf. Varro, R.R. II. 2. 18, and Horace, Od. II. 6. 10.
Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus. On Agriculture, Volume 1. Harrison Boyd Ash. London. Cambridge. William Heinemann; Harvard University. 1940. Keyboarding.
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