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[8] Si semicirculus fuerit ager, cuius basis habeat pedes CXL, curvaturae autem latitudo 1pedes LXX: oportebit multiplicare latitudinem cum basi. Septuagies centeni quadrageni fiunt novem milia et octingenti. Haec undecies multiplicata fiunt centum septem milia et octingenti: Huius summae quarta decima est septem milia et septingenti. Hos pedes esse dicemus in semicirculo, qui efficiunt iugeri quadrantem scripula quinque. 2 3 4 5 [p. 20]

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2 diametros ac: dimidia metros SA.

3 multiplicato c: multiplico SAa.

4 fiunt oro. SAac.

5 latitudo ac: latitudinem SA; a I.e. a sexcuncia (36 scripula) and 2 ½ scripula = 38 ½ scripula = 3850 square feet. b A quadratis (72 scripula) and 5 scripula = 77 scripula = 7700 square feet.

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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