Note 1510 — Appendix A (to p. 37). The supposed Agricultural and Northern Diakria.
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Lucret. V. 1370–5; Virg. Aen. XI. 316–20 and Servius, ad loc.; cp. Aen. XI. 569; Tac. Ann. I. 17. The Latin evidence all shows that when Pliny, N.H. XVIII. 12, says that foreign wheat can only be compared with the mountain crops of Italy (montanis Italiae agris), he is using “mons” of anything that is not valley. Caesar, it should be remembered, speaks of the mountains of Kent.