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[5] alimentum. Itaque et fetae cytisus viridis1et torrefactum hordeum,2maceratumque ervum praebetur, et tener vitulus 3torrido molitoque milio et permixto cum lacte salivatur. Melius etiam in hos usus Altinae vaccae parantur, quas eius regionis incolae cevas 4appellant. Eae sunt humilis staturae, 5 6 7 8 9 10 [p. 186] lactis abundantes, propter quod remotis earum fetibus, generosum pecus alienis educatur uberibus: vel si hoc praesidium non adest, faba fresa et vinum recte tolerat, idque praecipue in magnis gregibus fieri oportet.
5 tam SAR.
6 gravetur S: graventur AR.
7 viridis ed. pr.: viri SAR.
8 in horreum SAR.
9 tener vitulus Pontedera: tenuervitolus S1: tenue vitulus S1: tenuẽ vitulus S2: teneruit olus A
10 gevas S: cevas Aac. a I.e. from the point of view of nursing their young. b A town near Venice. c This word is probably the origin of the Low German Keue.
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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