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[21] Nec contentos esse nos oportet prima specie summi soli, sed diligenter exploranda est inferioris materiae qualitas, terrena necne sit. Frumentis autem sat erit, si aeque bona suberit bipedanea humus; arboribus altitudo quattuor pedum abunde est. Haec cum ita exploraverimus, agrum sationibus 1 2 3 4 5 6 [p. 122] faciundis expediemus. Is autem non minimum exuberat, si curiose et scite subigitur. Quare antiquissimum est formam huius operis conscribere,7quam velut sectam legemque in proscindendis agris sequantur agricolae.
1 possunt M, Ald., Gesn., Schn.
2 Sapore Ald., Gesn., Schn.
3 sic om. Gesn., Schn.
4 dignoscemus, si ex Ald., Gesn., Schn.
5 humi M.
6 non tamen nisi AR, vett. edd. a Such a soil test is mentioned also by Vergil (Georg. II. 226-237) and Palladius (loc. cit.). Pliny (loc. cit.) rejects the test as inconclusive. b Cf. I. Praef. 24. c On testing by tasting cf. De Arb. 3. 6; Vergil, Georg. II. 238-247; Palladius, loc. cit.
Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus. On Agriculture, Volume 1. Harrison Boyd Ash. London. Cambridge. William Heinemann; Harvard University. 1940. Keyboarding.
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