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.

Interim per has notas, quas iam diximus, probatis apibus destinari debent pabulationes, eaeque sint secretissimae, et ut1 noster praecipit Maro, viduae 2 pecudibus, aprico et minime procelloso caeli statu: Quo neque sit ventis aditus; nam pabula venti Ferre domum prohibent: neque oves haedique petulci Floribus insultent, aut errans bucula campo Decutiat rorem, et surgentes atterat herbas.