Note (70) — BOOK II. (continued 2)
James Greive translation
70. Made of far.) Far is a species of wheat.—Columella reckons four kinds of it. Pliny says it is the hardest of all, and firmest against winter. It was called also semen adoreum. It was the first grain the Romans used. Pliny, lib. xvii. cap. 8, et Columella, lib. ii. cap. 6.