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[17] ventilentur et quasi refrigerentur. Id autem falsissimum est; neque enim hoc facto expelluntur animalia, sed immiscentur totis acervis. Qui si maneant immoti, summis tantum partibus infestentur,1quoniam infra mensuram palmi non nascitur curculio; longeque praestat id solum, quod iam vitiatum est, quam totum periculo subicere. Nam 2 3 4 [p. 74] cum exiget usus,5facile est eo sublato, quod vitiatum erit, integro inferiore uti. Sed haec, etsi extrinsecus, non tamen intempestive videor hoc loco rettulisse.
2 dein SA, Lundstrōm.
3 possit SAR, vett. edd.: possis Schn. in not., Lundstrōm: possunt vulgo.
4 infestantur R, Ald., Gesn., Schn. a Varro (R.R. I. 57. 2) speaks of the use of pits (sin) in Cappadocia and Thrace, and of straw-bottomed wells (putei) in certain sections of Spain. Wheat, he says, has been known to keep in this way for as long as fifty years, and millet for more than a hundred; cf. Pliny, N.H. XVIII. 306. The
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