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1 online resource
ISBN:
9780674993983
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9780674994485
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9780674994492
Series Statement:
Loeb Classical Library 361
Content:
Columella (first century CE) included Cato and Varro among many sources for On Agriculture, but his personal experience was paramount. Written in prose except for the hexameters on horticulture of Book 10, the work is richly informative about country life in first century CE Italy, Columella (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived in the reigns of the first emperors to about 70 CE. He moved early in life to Italy where he owned farms and lived near Rome. It is probable that he did military service in Syria and Cilicia and that he died at Tarentum. Columella's On Agriculture (De Re Rustica) is the most comprehensive, systematic and detailed of Roman agricultural works. Book I covers choice of farming site; water supply; buildings; staff. II: Ploughing; fertilising; care of crops. III, IV, V: Cultivation, grafting and pruning of fruit trees, vines, and olives. VI: Acquisition, breeding, and rearing of oxen, horses, and mules; veterinary medicine. VII: Sheep, goats, pigs, and dogs. VIII: Poultry; fish ponds. IX: Bee-keeping. X (in hexameter poetry): Gardening. XI: Duties of the overseer of a farm; calendar for farm work; more on gardening. XII: Duties of the overseer's wife; manufacture of wines; pickling; preserving. There is also a separate treatise, Trees (De Arboribus), on vines and olives and various trees, perhaps part of an otherwise lost work written before On Agriculture. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Columella is in three volumes
Content:
v. I. Books 1-4 / with an English translation by Harrison Boyd Ash -- v. II. Books 5-9 / with an English translation by E.S. Forster and Edward H. Heffner -- v. III. Books 10-12. On trees / with an English translation by E.S. Forster and Edward H. Heffner
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Text in Latin with English translation on facing pages
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Text in Latin with English translation on facing pages
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674993983(v.1)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674994485(v.2)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674994492(v.3)
Additional Edition:
Print version Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus On agriculture Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 1941
Language:
English
Author information:
Columella, Lucius Iunius Moderatus
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