Illic in semenstri die aut nocte quem ad modum quicquam seri aut alescere aut meti possit? Contra quid in Italia utensile non modo non nascitur, sed etiam non egregium fit? Quod far conferam Campano? Quod triticum Apulo? Quod vinum Falerno? Quod oleum Venafro? Non arboribus consita Italia, ut tota pomarium videatur? An Phrygia magis vitibus cooperta, quam Homerus appellat , quam haec? Aut tritico Argos, quod idem poeta ? In qua terra iugerum unum denos et quinos denos culleos fert vini, quot quaedam in Italia regiones?
but there, where the day and the night are each six months long, how can anything be planted, or grow, or be harvested? On the other hand, what useful product is there which not only does not grow in Italy, but even grow to perfection? What spelt shall I compare to the Campanian, what wheat to the Apulian, what wine to the Falernian, what oil to the Venafran? Is not Italy so covered with trees that the whole land seems to be an orchard? Is that Phrygia, which Homer calls the vine-clad, more covered with vines than this land, or Argos, which the same poet calls the rich in corn, more covered with wheat? In what land does one iugerum bear ten and fifteen cullei of wine, as do some sections of Italy?
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