Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus, Res Rustica, Books V-IX, book 7, chapter 6, section 9

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[9] existant. Magister autem pecoris acer, durus, ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ [p. 282] strenuus, laboris patientissimus, alacer atque audax esse debet, et qui per rupes, per solitudines, per vepres facile vadat, et non, ut alterius generis pastores, sequatur, sed plerumque ut antecedat gregem. Maxime strenuum pecus est capella ⁷ praecedens; ⁸ subinde quae incedit,⁹ compesci debet, ne procurrat,¹⁰ sed placide ac lente pabuletur, ut et largi sit uberis, et non strigosissimi corporis.

1 constratu SAR.

2 qui SAR.

3 edorum SAc: odorum a.

4 tenue SAR.

5 bimae SA: bime ac.

6 fatigatae steriles S2: fatigata steriles S1: fatigata est exsteriles A. a Recently the reading bimae, instead of binae has been strongly urged on the basis of palaeography and the sense of the passage (Richter, Hermes LXXX. 215).

Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus. On Agriculture, Volume 2. E.S. Forster. Edward H. Heffner. London. Cambridge. William Heinemann; Harvard University. 1954. Keyboarding.

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