Res Rustica

Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus

Columella. On agriculture, Volume 1-2. Ash, Harrison Boyd; Foster, Edward Seymour; Heffner, Edward H., editors. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1941.

Adhuc enim scholas rhetorum et, ut dixi, geometrarum musicorumque [*](violentia SA, Lundstrōm: intemperantia R, plerique edd. ) [*](tractaverit R, plerique edd. a Cf. Lucretius, V. 826-827, sed quia finem aliquam pariendi debet habere, destitit ut mulier spatio defessa vetusto. ) [*](So Pliny (N.H. XVIII. 19-21), who attributes the former plenty to cultivation of the soil by the hands of generals, consuls, tribunes, and senators. )

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vel, quod magis mirandum est, contemptissimorum vitiorum officinas, gulosius condiendi cibos et luxuriosius fercula [*]()struendi, capitumque et capillorum concinnatores non solum esse audivi, sed et ipse vidi: agricolationis neque doctores, qui se profiterentur, [*]()