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[5] At si tribus paribus 1lateribus triquetrum metiri debueris, hanc formam sequeris. Esto ager tri-angulus pedum quoquo versus tricentorum. Hunc numerum in se multiplicate. Fiunt pedum nonaginta milia. Huius summae partem tertiam sumite, 2 3 4 [p. 16] id est triginta milia. Item sumito decumam, id est novem milia. Utramque summam componito. Fiunt pedes triginta novem milia. Dicemus hanc summam pedum quadratorum esse in eo triquetro, quae mensura efficit iugerum, et trientem, et 5sicilicum. Sed si triangulus disparibus fuerit lateribus ager, tanquam in subiecta forma, quae habet rectum
Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus. On Agriculture, Volume 2. E.S. Forster. Edward H. Heffner. London. Cambridge. William Heinemann; Harvard University. 1954. Keyboarding.
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