By Columella, Harrison Boyd Ash
Columella (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived within the reigns of the 1st emperors to approximately 70 CE. He moved early in lifestyles to Italy the place he owned farms and lived close to Rome. it really is possible that he did army provider in Syria and Cilicia and that he died at Tarentum. Columella's On Agriculture (De Re Rustica) is the main entire, systematic and designated of Roman agricultural works. ebook I covers number of farming website; water offer; constructions; employees. II: Ploughing; fertilising; care of vegetation. III, IV, V: Cultivation, grafting and pruning of fruit bushes, vines, and olives. VI: Acquisition, breeding, and rearing of oxen, horses, and mules; veterinary drugs. VII: Sheep, goats, pigs, and canine. VIII: fowl; fish ponds. IX: Bee-keeping. X (in hexameter poetry): Gardening. XI: tasks of the overseer of a farm; calendar for farm paintings; extra on gardening. XII: tasks of the overseer's spouse; manufacture of wines; pickling; keeping. there's additionally a separate treatise, timber (De Arboribus), on vines and olives and numerous timber, might be a part of an differently misplaced paintings written sooner than On Agriculture. The Loeb Classical Library variation of Columella is in 3 volumes.
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Cum PorUedera. , Gesn. * perosis vulgo : per obsessa Lundsirom {cum codicibus, ut videtur). An . . optabilior om. M. : » alia SAa. fluctibus pendeat fluctibus tendere 8 A '" 6 Lwndslrdm {cum duobv^s codd. ) fluctibus se fluctibus pendeat a : : : BOOK I, PREFACE 5-8 is more to be wondered at, training-schools most contemptible vices the seasoning of food to promote gluttony and the more extravagant serving of courses, and dressers of the head and hair I have not only heard but have even seen or, what — for the — my o^vn eyes ; but of agriculture I know neither self-professed teachers nor pupils.
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An ^ Latiae Musae non solos adytis suis ^^ Aceium et Vei'gilium recepere, sed eorum et ' ^ * negligantur R plerique, edd. ante lundstrom. coeperunt R aliquot, edd. ante Lundstrom. , Lundstrom describimus : vulyo. iri omnes post Aid. tardat ut rei tardi ab rei studio discedent M. * nolent M, edd. nollent 8 A et plerique. tentare plerique, edd. ante J^undstrom. , Lundstrom speravimus vulgo * culmen AR, edd. ante Lundstrom. * Schneider ex Cic. Oral. 1. »» mn. S. * tardatum plerique : : R : R •' : Nam 22 SA et R BOOK I, PREFACE 27-30 varieties of figs as well as to rose-gardens, when even greater things are negldcted by most people even though they have now begun to be, for many farmers, not the least part of their revenue ?