Aream esse oportet in agro sublimiori loco, quam perflare possit ventus; hanc esse modicam pro magnitudine segetis, potissimum rutundam et mediam paulo extumidam, ut, si pluerit, non consistat aqua et quam brevissimo itinere extra aream defluere possit; omne porro brevissimum in rutundo e medio ad extremum.
The threshing-floor should be on the place, in a somewhat elevated spot, so that the wind can sweep over it; the size should be determined by the size of the harvest. It should preferably be round, with a slight elevation at the centre, so that, if it rains, the water will not stand but be able to run off the floor in the shortest line'and of course in a circle the shortest line is from the centre to the circumference.
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