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.
Nam, ubi iam induruit, melius bimus quam anniculus castratur. Idque facere vere [*]()vel autumno luna decrescente praecipit, vitulumque ad machinam deligare: deinde prius quam ferrum admoveas, duabus angustis [*]() [*](fissa S: ipsa AR. ) [*](vere S: om. AR. ) [*](angustis S: angustiis Aac. a Herba Santonica according to Pliny (N.H. XXVII. § 28) was a kind of absinthium or wormwood found in the territory of the Santoni in the province of Aquitania: the name of the town of Saintes in the department of Charentes Inférieure is derived from this tribe. b Described in Chapter XIX above. )