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[15] Altero sulco seminari debet post aequinoctium, media fere sementi, si laeto solo, si gracili, maturius. Iugerum quinque modios occupabit.1Idque ubi 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 [p. 154] paulum maturuerit, festinantius quam ullum aliud frumentum demetendum erit; nam et fragili culmo et nulla vestitum palea granum eius celeriter decidit, isdemque 9de 10causis facibus teritur quam cetera. Sed cum eius messem sustuleris, optimum est novalia pati anno cessare; si minus, stercore saturare et omne virus, quod adhuc inest terrae, propulsare.
2 diffusum AR.
3 sic Lundstrōm cum codd.: conspicitur candidum vulgo.
4 ea om. SA.
5 ait. pascit (cibat M) post triticum add. R.
6 marcescere A2R pauci, Lundström: manascere A1: manescere S.
7 nimis SAa, Schn., Lundstrōm.
8 modii occupabunt Ald., Gesn., Schn.; sect modiis occupabit maluit Schn. in not., ex Pallad., Sept. 4.
Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus. On Agriculture, Volume 1. Harrison Boyd Ash. London. Cambridge. William Heinemann; Harvard University. 1940. Keyboarding.
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