De Agricultura

"And Noah began to be a husbandman; and he planted a vineyard, and he drank of the wine, and he was drunk in his house." [*](Genesis ix. 20. ) The generality of men not understanding the nature of things, do also of necessity err with respect to the composition of names; for those who consider affairs anatomically, as it were, are easily able to affix appropriate names to things, but those who look at them in a confused and irregular way are incapable of such accuracy.