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VARRO ON FARMING 



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CHAPTER XVI 



OF BEES AND APIARIES 



1 And so, said Appius, in the matter of farmyard 

 feeding we come to the third act, which is about 

 fishponds. Third act be hanged! said Axius, do 

 you suppose, because you were so very economical 

 when a young man as not to drink wine and honey 

 at home, that we are going to neglect honey? Axius 



2 speaks the truth, said he, turning to us, for I was 

 left with scanty means, and two brothers and two 

 sisters ^ to keep. One of the latter ^ I married with- 

 out a portion to LucuUus, and it was only when he 



eiusdem silvae: et si inisceantur alienigenae, amne vel monte 

 discreti, interire dimicando. Genitoris suos fessos senecta alunt 

 insigni pietate. . . . InMoesia silva Italiae — non nisi in parte — 

 reperiuniur hi glires. Albertus Magnus (quoted by Schneider) 

 gives an excellent description of the dormouse, and states that 

 in his time {circa 1 250) they were fattened in large numbers by 

 the rustics of Bohemia and Carinthia. 



^ Duabus sororihus. Schneider points out that Appius had 

 three sisters. Probably one of these was married in the life- 

 time of her father. The sister married to Lucullus was said 

 by Cicero to have been treated with as little respect as was 

 the Bona Dea by her brother P. Clodius whom Cicero (Pro 

 Dom. 34) calls on that account Jove: Sed vide ne tu te deheas 

 /ovem dicere quod tu iure eandem sororem et uxorem appellare 

 possis. 



^ Quarum. In view of the anacoluthon Scaliger conjectured 

 earum, GQssner duarum. Neither is necessary, for, as it has 

 been shown, Varro frequently has such anacolutha. 



