alterum palus e pertica, meliore dura, quo diuturnior; quem cum infimum terra solvit, puter evertitur et fit solum summum;
The second best is a stake made from a branch, and preferably from a tough one, so that it will last longer; when one end has rotted in the ground the stake is reversed, what had been the top becoming the bottom.
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