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[2] Curiatiae 1familiae trigeminorum matres. Ger- 2 3 4 5 6 7 [p. 274] maniam decoravit altissimorum hominum exercitibus; sed et alias gentes non in totum fraudavit praecipuae staturae viris. Nam et Cicero 8testis est Romanum fuisse civem Naevium Pollionem pede 9longiorem quam quemquam longissimum; et nuper ipsi videre potuimus in apparatu pompae Circensium ludorum Iudaeae gentishominemproceriorem celsissimo
2 naturali c.
3 quae spectandae sint qualitas in eo solo quod vineis destinaveris post posse inserunt SAc, et in rubr. M.
4 reperiamus S: repperiamus A.
5 eadem A.
6 generandi SA, vett. edd.
7 Curiatiae edd.: aequitiae SA: equitiae acM. a Pliny (N.H. VII. 33) mentions several cases of multiple births, including the famous sets of triplets, the Roman Horatii and the Alban Curiatii (Livy, I. 24-26). A woman in the Peloponnesus, he says, four times gave birth to quintu-
Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus. On Agriculture, Volume 1. Harrison Boyd Ash. London. Cambridge. William Heinemann; Harvard University. 1940. Keyboarding.
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