[347] First of April.
[348] I. e. Egypt Proper, the Delta, or Lower Egypt, Thebais being in Upper Egypt.
[349] The overflow of these rivers is by no means to be compared with that of the Nile.
[350] Fée remarks, that the plough here described differs but little from that used in some provinces of France.
[351] Resupinus.
[352] Gallia Togata. Rhætia is the modern country of the Grisons.
[353] According to Goropius Becanus, from plograt, the ancient Gallic for a plough-wheel. Hardouin thinks that it is from the Latin “plaustra rati;” and Poinsinet derives it from the Belgic ploum, a plough, and rat, or radt, a wheel.
[354] “Crates;” probably made of hurdles; see Virgil, Georg. i. 95.
[355] De Re Rust. c. 61.
[356] These rules are borrowed mostly from Varro, B. i. c. 19, and Columella, B. ii. c. 4.