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[32] et inferioribus merita laus contigit. Accedit huc, quod illi, quem nos perfectum esse volumus agricolam, si quidem artis consummatae non sit, nec 1in universa rerum natura sagacitatem Democriti vel Pythagorae fuerit consecutus, et in motibus astrorum ventorumque Metonis providentiam vel Eudoxi et in pecoris cultu doctrinam Chironis ac 2 3 [p. 26] Melampodis, et in agrorum solique molitione Triptolemi aut Aristaei prudentiam, multum tamen pro-fecerit si usu Tremelios Sasernasque et Stolones
2 Catulo R nonnulli, Ald., Gesn.: Catullo R pauci.
3 sic vulgo: consummatae sit et LundstrÅm cum vett. edd. et codd. vt videtur (praeter consummataest S). a Cf. Cicero, Ad Fam. IX. 21. 1. b Five famous Roman orators, younger contemporaries of Cicero. c Homer. d Three celebrated Greek painters of the fourth century B.C. c I.e. the chryselephantine statue of Zeus at Olympia and of Athena in the Parthenon. f Bryaxis, Lysippus and Praxiteles (all of the fourth cent. B.C.) and Polyclitus (fifth cent, B.C.) were, like Phidias who overtopped them, distinguished Greek statuaries.
Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus. On Agriculture, Volume 1. Harrison Boyd Ash. London. Cambridge. William Heinemann; Harvard University. 1940. Keyboarding.
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