PLINV: NATURAL HLSTOUY 



circo videmas — tertiam ex his nominare sub tecto 

 religio est — ac ne degustabant quidem novas fruges 

 aut vina antequam sacerdotes primitias libassent. 

 9 II L lugerum ^ vocabatur quod uno iugo boum in 

 die exarari posset, actus in quo boves agerentur cum 

 aratro imo impetu ia^^to; hic erat cxx pcdum. 

 duplicatu-sque in longitudinem iugerum facicbat. 

 dona amplissjma imperatoruni ac fortium civium 

 quantum quis uno die plurimum circumaravisset, 

 item (juartarii farris aut heminac, conferente populo. 



10 cognomina etiam prima inde : Pihmini qui pilum 

 pistrinis invenerat, Pisonis a pisendo. iam Fabiorum, 

 Lentulorum, Ciceronum. ut quisque aliquod optime 

 genus sereret. Iunif)rum e * famiHa Bubulcum 

 nominarunt quia bubu'. optime utebatur. quin et in 

 sacris nihil rcHgiosius confarreationis vinculo erat, 



1 1 novaeque nuptae farreum praeferebant. agnmi male 

 colere censorium probrum iudicabatur, atque, ut 

 refert Cato, cum virum ^ laudantes bonum agricolam 

 bonumque colonum dixissent, amplissime laudasse 



* lugum c Varroni.s E.R. l. 10 Ursinws. 

 ' e (a(/< in ?) add. Mayhoff. 



* virum <bonum> c Caione Mayhoff. 



' It is not clear whether this means Segesta, including in 

 the list the Termini as welJ as Seia, or whether a third 

 guardian deity, TuteUna, is hinted at. 



* The term ' [ilough-gate ' might suggest the association ot 

 terms indicated. 



' Actus, lit. a 'drive'; our furlong ia 5i timea as long. 

 The iugerum described was 40 X 80 yards or 3200 square 

 j-ards, our acre being 4840 square yards. 



■* l.r. the cognomen of thc family, which was preceded by 

 the nomen of the gf.ns, and that by the praeTumien of the 

 individual. 



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