Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics
[26] scamnum vocant; boves, cum ad arborem venerint, fortiter retinere ac retardare, ne in radicem maiore nisu vomis impactus colla commoveat, neve aut cornu bos ad stipitem vehementius offendat aut extremo iugo truncum delibet ramumque deplantet. Voce potius quam verberibus terreat, ultimaque sint opus recusantibus remedia plagae. Numquam stimulo lacessat iuvencum, quae res taetricum 1calcitrosumque eum reddit, non numquam tamen admoneat 2 [p. 126]
2 quae rea taetricum scripsi, praeeunte ex parte Lundström (q. r. taetratum): quae rescae tratum SA: q; reste (vel recte) tractum R: iuvencumque reste (vel recte) tractum vett. edd.: quod retrectantem Gesn., Schn., praeeunte Ursino (q. retractantem). a The arbustum was a plantation of trees to which vines were trained. b Cf. Varro, L.L. V. 135, dens, quod eo mordetur terra. c I.e. a "skip" or "balk."On the matter of ploughs
Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus. On Agriculture, Volume 1. Harrison Boyd Ash. London. Cambridge. William Heinemann; Harvard University. 1940. Keyboarding.
Tufts University provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.