Res Rustica
Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus
Columella. On agriculture, Volume 1-2. Ash, Harrison Boyd; Foster, Edward Seymour; Heffner, Edward H., editors. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1941.
Feriis autem ritus maiorum etiam illa permittit: far pinsere,[*]()faces incidere, candelas sebare, vineam conductam colere, piscinas, lacus, fossas veteres tergere et purgare, prata sicilire, stercora aequare, faenum in tabulata componere, fructus oliveti conductos cogere, mala, pira, ficos pandere, caseum facere, arbores serendi causa collo vel mulo clitellario adferre; sed iuncto advenere non permittitur nec adportatas [*]()serere neque terram aperire neque arborem conlucare, sed ne sementem quidem administrare, nisi prius catulo feceris, nec faenum secare aut vincire aut vehere;
ac ne vindemiam quidem cogi per religiones pontificum feriis licet nec ovis tondere, nisi si catulo feceris. Defrutum quoque facere et vinum defrutare licet. Uvas itemque olivas conditu [*]()legere licet.Pellibus oves vestiri [*](lavare SA. ) [*](si om. R, edd. ante Lundström. ) [*](qui Gesn., Schn. ) [*](id est salutari om. R aliquot, Ald., Gesn., Schn. ) [*](faro (farao A) instare SA. ) [*](adportatas Warmington: adportata vel apportata R, edd.: adportare SA. ) [*](conditui R plerique, Ald, Gesn., Schn. a The ancient authorities frequently speak, for example, of dipping sheep as a preventive of scab. b Cf. Cato, 2. 4. c Sicilire is defined by Varro (R.R. I. 49. 2) as cutting with a sickle the tufts of grass which the mowers have passed over. d Not the regular pruning (putatio), but the removal of superfluous foliage to admit the light (conlucare, sublucare). )