Sucularumque et prelorum et vectium si non fuisset torculars praeparatio, neque olei nitorem neque vitium fructum habere potuissemus ad iucunditatem, portationesque eorum non essent, nisi plostrorum seu serracorum per terram, navicularum per aquam inventae essent machinationes.
If windlasses, press-beams and levers had not been supplied to the presses, we should not have had clear oil or the produce of the vine for our enjoyment. And their transport would have been impossible, unless the construction of carts or waggons by land, and of ships by sea had been devised.
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