The Natural History of Pliny the Elder, Part 2
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The Signs of the Winter Solstice
Hygienus recommends us to strain and even rack off wine at the seventh day after the winter solstice. Acorns too should now be put in soak for the oxen, a modius for each pair. This too is the period that we have already assigned for cutting timber. Other kinds of work again may be found for the hours of the night which are then so greatly prolonged. There are baskets, hurdles, and panniers to be woven, and wood to be cut for torches. Squared stays for the vine may be prepared too, thirty in the daytime, and if rounded as many as sixty. In the long hours of the evening too, some five squared stays or
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