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[2] Secunda conditio est habenda siliginis, cuius species in pane praecipua pondere deficitur. Tertium erit trimestre, 1cuius usus agricolis gratissimus; nam ubi propter aquas aliamve causam matura satio est omissa, praesidium ab hoc petitur. Id porro 2genus 3 4 5 6 7 [p. 138] est siliginis. Reliquae tritici species, nisi si quos multiplex varietas frugum et inanis delectat gloria,
3 obrui R pauci, et vulgo: adrui codd. plerique, Lundström.
4 dissupari SA, Liundslröm.
5 persequemur edd. ante Lundström.
6 trimenstre S, Lundström.
7 porro om. AR, edd. ante Lundström. a 1 modius = about 1 peck. b One cart-load contained eighty modii; cf. XI. 2. 86 and Palladius, X. 1. 2. c For the wheats, see Note on page 461.
Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus. On Agriculture, Volume 1. Harrison Boyd Ash. London. Cambridge. William Heinemann; Harvard University. 1940. Keyboarding.
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