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XXIV

Non bonus agricolis nec frugibus utilis hospes
Nec magnus forma nec recto nomine dictus
Nec gratus Cereri de multa vivo sagina.

Peck:

To farmers and their crops no useful guest,
Though small, they think me still a mighty pest.
And Ceres loves me not, I eat with too much zest.

Ohl:

No good to farmers, to the crops no useful guest, not great in size nor by my right name called, not pleasing to Ceres, no small store I consume.

Editor's Additional Notes:

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Ohl's Critical Notes on the Latin Text:

Tit. Gurgulio αβGI

1 bonis α — agriculis βd — frugibus non BD; non om. A; nec Perionius — utelis A — hospis Ad

2 nec . . . nec AB (sed non recto β — nomina A

3 Ne gradus A; Nec B — sed multa vivo sagina AB; de m. v. s. Baehr. — sagenam α

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