To these fell to be added the time of rest in the middle of winter after the completion of the autumnal bowing, which Columella estimates at thirty days.

[130] This is still, as it was formerly, the mode of describing the awkward bowing of the lower class.

She moved with an unresisting grace, a delicate bowing of her head and swaying of her body, and breathless as if she went against a wind.

There he descended from his carriage to receive their last adieus, and there was much lowly bowing as they stood on the highway.

So far from intending to describe farmers as lacking in intelligence, all he wished to show was that they did not use their natural abilities, from a certain traditionary bowing to custom.