[357] “Vere actum” “worked in spring.”
[358] Virgil says the same, Georg. i. 9.
[359] Crosswise, or horizontally.
[360] Zig-zag, apparently.
[361] A rude foreshadowing of the spade husbandry so highly spoken of at the present day.
[362] “Prevaricare,” “to make a balk,” as we call it, to make a tortuous furrow, diverging from the straight line.
[363] He probably means the heavy “rastrum,” or rake, mentioned by Virgil, Georg. i. 164. It is impossible to say what was the shape of this heavy rake, or how it was used. Light, or hand rakes were in common use as well.
[364] “A gong crooked;” hence its meaning of, folly, dotage, or madness.
[365] Georg. i. 47. Servius seems to understand it that the furrow should be untouched for two days and two nights before it is gone over again.
[366] Fée declines to give credit to this story.