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Columella, De Re Rustica vii 3.26

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2015

W.D. Ashworth
W.D. Ashworth*
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University of Newcastle
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tum qui sequitur gregem circumspectus ac uigilans—id quod omnibus et omnium quadripedum custodibus praecipitur—magna dementia moderetur idemque propior quia silent et in agendis recipiendisque ouibus adclamatione ac baculo minetur nee umquam telum emittat in eas neque ab his longius recedat nec aut recubet aut considat. nam nisi procedit, stare debet, quoniam quidem custodis officium sublimem celsissimamque oculorum ueluti speculam desiderat, ut neque tardiores grauidas, dum cunctantur, neque agiles et fetas, dum procurrunt, separari a ceteris sinat, ne fur aut bestia halucinantem pastorem decipiat.

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Research Article
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Antichthon , Volume 1 , 1967 , pp. 42 - 44
Copyright
Copyright © Australasian Society for Classical Studies 1967

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References

1 Columellae Opera, rec. Lundström, V., Fasc. IV, 1940.Google Scholar

2 Scriptores Rei Rusticae, ed. Schneider, J.G., 1794.Google Scholar

3 Columella, , De Re Rustica ii (Loeb Classical Library, 1954).Google Scholar

4 Op. cit. Vol. i, Part 2, p. 388.

5 Compare Isaiah 53.7: ‘He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.’

6 Hermes Ixxx (1952), 213–15.

7 As, for example, at v 6. 11 uel propius ferro compescunt, uel longius promitttunt; vi 2. 14 (quoted above); vi 19. 1 ut et propior accessus ad pecudem medentibus sit; vii 12. 7 nec patiuntur propius accedere.

8 The following are some of the more significant omissions of less than a whole line to be found in Book vii: 2. 6 in utroque uel etnendo <uel tuendo> plura communia; 4. 8 medi<camin>a; 5. 14 insertaper auriculam <radicula>, quam …; 5. 19 suspiriose laborantibus <ouibus> auriculae ferro rescindendae; 5. 21 si <per in>prudentiam pastoris emissi agni; 9. 1 quadrati potius <quam> longi; 9. 3 ad partus edendo<s ido>nea; 9. 8 pluribus <generibus> pomorum consitus; 9. 9 sed <per> porticus <harae> faciendae sunt; 12. 9 atque auferre <debeat. quare status> eius longior …; 13. 1 coctampicem liquidam suillae adipi <mixtam> uulneribus stillari.

9 Columella uses the word absolutely as well as with a preposition: see vii 12. 8 pecuarius canis … promptus ac strenuus.