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[2] vel silvae caeduae iudicent; nam de arbusto etiam inter auctores non exigua pugna fuit, abnuente Saserna genus id ruris, Tremelio maxime probante. Sed et hanc sententiam suo loco aestimabimus.1Interim studiosi agricolationis hoc primum docendi sunt, uberrimum esse reditum vinearum. Atque ut omittam veterem illam felicitatem arvorum,2quibus et ante iam Cato Marcus, et mox Varro Terentius, prodidit singula iugera vinearum sescenas urnas vini praebuisse—id enim maxime adseverat in primo libro rerum rusticarum Varro—nec una regione 3 4 [p. 254] piovenire solitum, verum et in Faventino 5agro

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3 estimavimus S: extimabimus ac: existimabimus M.

4 arborum SA1. a I.e. the lower quality of the prolific vine is more than offset by the quantity of its yield. b I.e. the arbustum. c Varro, R.R. I. 2. 7, quoting Cato, Origines. d 1 urna = 1/2 amphora = about 3.42 U.S. (2.85 Brit.) gallons.

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Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus. On Agriculture, Volume 1. Harrison Boyd Ash. London. Cambridge. William Heinemann; Harvard University. 1940. Keyboarding.

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