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[4] videantur. Nam frumenta maiore 1quidem parte 2Italiae quando cum quarto responderint, vix meminisse possumus.3Cur ergo res infamis est? Non quidem suo sed hominum inquit vitio Graecinus: primum, quod in explorandis seminibus nemo adhibet diligentiam, et ideo pessimi generis plerique vineta conserunt; deinde sata non ita nutriunt, ut ante 4 5 6 7 8 [p. 256] convalescant ac prosiliant, quam retorrcscant; sed
4 florentino Sa: flor. expunet. et faventino in mar q. A.
5 octingenae SAcM: ottingene a: octogenae vulgo.
6 maiorem SAa, Sobel.
7 partem SA, Sobel.
8 possimus S (in possumus con.) A, Sobel. a Mod. Faenza. b A strip of land running along the Adriatic coast of Italy. c Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the philosopher. d 1 culleus = 20 amphorae = about 137 U.S. (114 Brit.) gallons. e See Introd., p. xi. f Perhaps the two iugera of grafted vines mentioned in III. 9. 6. For the varying number of vines planted to the iugerum, see V. 3.
Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus. On Agriculture, Volume 1. Harrison Boyd Ash. London. Cambridge. William Heinemann; Harvard University. 1940. Keyboarding.
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