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[5] vannisque expurgantur. At ubi paleis immixta sunt frumenta, vento separantur. Ad eam rem Favonius habetur eximius, qui levis aequalisque aestivis mensibus perflat; quem tamen opperiri lenti est agricolae, 1 2 3 4 5 [p. 218] quia saepe,6dum expectatur, saeva nos hiems deprendit. Itaque in area detrita frumenta sic sunt aggeranda ut omni flatu possint cxcerni. At si compluribus diebus undique silebit aura, vannis 7expurgentur, ne post nimiam ventorum segnitiem vasta tempestas inritum faciat totius anni laborem.
1 rostratis ac: nostratibus SAR, vett. edd.
2 nubilarium Ald., Gesn., Schn.
3 solidibus SA.
4 traheam Lundström: trahere SAR: traham vulgo.
5 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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