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Three emendations in Columella

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Michael Winterbottom
Michael Winterbottom
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Corpus Christi College, Oxford, [email protected]
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I refer to the editions of the third book of Columella by S. Hedberg (Uppsala, 1968) and J. C. Dumont (Paris, 1993).

… nullus tamen uel iniquissimus locus non maiorem quaestum reddet quam acceperit inpensam: siquidem, ut cultoris neglegentia sex milia seminum intereant, reliqua tamen decem milia tribus milibus nummorum libenter et cum lucro redemptorum erunt… 3.3.12–13

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Shorter Notes
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , December 1999 , pp. 633 - 634
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1999

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1 I first thought of ‘redemptorum ementur’. But libenter seems to demand an active verb.

2 Columella regularly uses uirentia as a plural noun to mean ‘growing things’ (1.5.8; 2.2.23; 3.1.9 [of vines], 3.6.4 [of vines]; 3.8.1; 4.1.4 [of vines]; 9.5.6; 11.3.50). But of course that does not mean he cannot use the word as a participle (so 9.4.4 ‘semina [in a different sense] … crudo caespite uirentia’).

3 P.-P. Corsetti ingeniously suggests (Dumont, 97) that tempestate might derive from a dittography of per [‘écrit avec un p barré’] (a)estatem.