# Res Rustica 8.2.9

Columella, Res Rustica, Book 8, Chapter 2. Latin.

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Gallinaceos mares nisi salacissimos habere non expedit. Atque in his quoque sicut in feminis, idem color, idemque numerus unguium, status altior quaeritur: sublimes, sanguineaeque, nec obliquae cristae: ravidi,vel nigrantes oculi: brevia et adunca rostra: maximae candidissimaeque aures: paleae ex rutilo albicantes, quae velut incanae barbae dependent: iubae deinde variae, vel ex auro flavae, per colla cervicesque in humeros diffusae:

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Columella, Res Rustica, ed. Harrison Boyd Ash, E.S. Forster, Edward H. Heffner, E. S. Forster. Text: the Perseus Digital Library, canonical-latinLit, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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