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Sequitur opus vineae conserendae, quae vel vere vel autumno tempestive deponitur: vere melius, si aut pluvius aut frigidus status caeli est, aut ager pinguis, aut campestris et uliginosa planities; rursus autumno, si sicca, si calida est aeris qualitas, si exilis atque aridus campus, si macer praeruptusve collis. Vernaeque positionis dies fere quadraginta sunt ab Idibus Februariis usque in aequinoctium; rursus autumnalis ab Idibus Octob. in Kalendas Decembres. [2] Sationis autem duo genera, malleoli vel viviradicis, quod utrumque ab agricolis usurpatur; et in provinciis magis malleoli, neque enim seminariis student 1 2 3 [p. 320] nec usum habent faciendae viviradicis. Hanc sationem cultores Italiae plerique iure improbaverunt, [3] quoniam plurimis dotibus praestat viviradix: nam minus interit, cum et calorem et frigus, ceterasque tempestates propter firmitatem facilius sustineat; deinde adolescit maturius. Ex quo 4evenit ut celerius quoque sit tempestiva edendis fructibus; tum etiam nihil dubium est saepius 5translatam.6Potest tamen malleolus protinus in vicem viviradicis conseri soluta et facili terra; ceterum densa et gravis utique vitem desiderat.
1 supposuimus ac.
2 deducit S1AcM, et omnes ante Gesn.
3 et fusus SAac: effusus M. a The line and plummet, sometimes suspended from the apex of a triangular frame, formed a simple level (libella). b I.e., the new land, when so trenched in successive strips of the same dimensions, comes gradually to resemble a field that is kept in cultivation, though temporarily out of production.
Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus. On Agriculture, Volume 1. Harrison Boyd Ash. London. Cambridge. William Heinemann; Harvard University. 1940. Keyboarding.
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