Lectures on Roman husbandry, delivered before the University of Oxford; comprehending such an account of the system of agriculture, the treatment of domestic animals, the horticulture &c., pursued in ancient times, as may be collected from the Scriptores rei rusticae, the Georgics of Virgil, and other classical authorities, with notices of the plants mentioned in Columella and Virgil; . JLeXxvuJyr. lect. in.] ROMAN HUSBANDRY. 99 formed of the ilex, for this is the strongest woodfor oxen to plough with— Evt av A^rji»atrj5 bjxooos ev iXvpari Trrjgas,r6jj,<poi(nv ireXaaas irpcxrapjipeTaL l(TTO
Lectures on Roman husbandry, delivered before the University of Oxford; comprehending such an account of the system of agriculture, the treatment of domestic animals, the horticulture &c., pursued in ancient times, as may be collected from the Scriptores rei rusticae, the Georgics of Virgil, and other classical authorities, with notices of the plants mentioned in Columella and Virgil; . JLeXxvuJyr. lect. in.] ROMAN HUSBANDRY. 99 formed of the ilex, for this is the strongest woodfor oxen to plough with— Evt av A^rji»atrj5 bjxooos ev iXvpari Trrjgas,r6jj,<poi(nv ireXaaas irpcxrapjipeTaL l(TTOj3orjC— (Ibid. 430.) provided only that the ingenious artificer shallhave fixed it skilfully to the ploughshare (£\), and have nailed it firmly to the draught-pole (la-Tofiorfi). Aa(pvris 8 rj TrreAojs dfctwrarot lorojSofjes, Apvbs ekvf/.a, irpivov yvrjv— (Ibid. 435-) But the strongest draught-poles are of laurel-wood or of elm, the ploughshare of oak, the hinderpart of the ploughshare of — ,Ap\6ixevos TCL TipSiT apoTov, OTCLV CLKpOV €X£tXy]SXetpt Aa/3o)f opTrrjKa fS6<av £iii v&tov iktjchEvbpvov zAkovtoiv (3(.ov. 6 be rur0os oiucrdevA/xwoj, €)((av jxaKekr]V, itovov opvidzo-at, TiOeirj,Eirepixara KaKt<pvTiTb)v— (Ibid. 467.) When you begin to till the ground, taking inyour hand the extremity of the plough-tail {eye-t\i]?), you shall thrust th
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