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; . may be interesting perhaps to a classicalaudience to refer to the lines in which allusionis made to these parts of the plough, translatingthem consistently with that view of their mean-ing which I have adopted,
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; . may be interesting perhaps to a classicalaudience to refer to the lines in which allusionis made to these parts of the plough, translatingthem consistently with that view of their mean-ing which I have adopted, which moreover willidentify the kind of plough alluded to by Hesiodwith that employed in Magna Grgecia and inSicily. H/xos S?7 \/yyei dfeos rjektoio KavjJLaTos lba\(, ixeTOTKopcvov dpLppyjcraPTos Zrjvbs tpcaOeveos— (Opera et Dies, 414.) When the force of the burning sun remits hisoppressive heats, all-powerful Jove pouring downhis autumnal rains—then (after enumeratingother labours fitted for the season he proceeds) is the time (pepetv be yvrjv, or av evprjsEis oikov, kcit opos bi.(jjixevos, ii Kar apovpavYlpiwiov os yap j3ovalv apovv oy^vpcaTaros eoTW. (Ibid. 427.) Then is the time to carry home the material forthe hinder part of your ploughshare, the 7^, when-ever you may find one fitted for the purpose,whether amongst the mountains or in the field. Plate, IVT.
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