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Quare revertamur ad ea, quae alveorum cultoribus magis apta sunt quot 1 genera sunt apium et quid 2 ex his optimum.3 Peripateticae sectae conditor Aristoteles in iis libris, quos de animalibus conscripsit, apium 4 examinum genera complura demonstrat, earumque alias 5 vastas sed glomerosas, 1 2 3 4 5 [p. 432] easdemque nigras et hirsutas apes habent: alias 6minores quidem, sed aeque 7rotundas et fusci 8coloris
1 quot SA2: quod A1.
2 quid scripsi: quod A: quot S.
3 quot—optimum om. ac.
4 apium sive c: om. SAa.
5 aliaque SAac. a Son of Apollo and Cyrene, also said to have planted the first olive-tree. b Cea, or in Greek Ceos, an island, one of the Cyclades, near Cape Sunium. c A mountain in Attica near Athens. d Mythical king of Athens.
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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