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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 4 (of 6)

Note 67 — BOOK XVIII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GRAIN.

John Bostock translation

He alludes to the famous maxim in the Georgics, B. ii. l. 412:—

——Laudato ingentia rura, Exiguum colito——

“Praise a large farm, cultivate a small one.”

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