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.
Quare revertamur ad ea, quae alveorum cultoribus magis apta sunt quot 1 genera sunt apium et quid 2 ex his optimum.3 Peripateticae sectae conditor Aristoteles in iis libris, quos de animalibus conscripsit, apium 4 examinum genera complura demonstrat, earumque alias 5 vastas sed glomerosas, [*](quot SA2: quod A1. ) [*](quid scripsi: quod A: quot S. ) [*](quot—optimum om. ac. ) [*](apium sive c: om. SAa. ) [*](aliaque SAac. a Son of Apollo and Cyrene, also said to have planted the first olive-tree. b Cea, or in Greek Ceos, an island, one of the Cyclades, near Cape Sunium. c A mountain in Attica near Athens. d Mythical king of Athens. )