Res Rustica
Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus
Columella. On agriculture, Volume 1-2. Ash, Harrison Boyd; Foster, Edward Seymour; Heffner, Edward H., editors. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1941.
Nec postremo quasi paedagogi eius meminisse dedignemur Iuli Hygini, verum tamen ut Carthaginiensem Magonem rusticationis parentem maxime veneremur; nam huius octo et viginti memorabilia illa volumina ex senatus consulto in Latinum sermonem conversa sunt.
Non minorem tamen laudem meruerunt nostrorum temporum viri Cornelius Celsus et Iulius Atticus, quippe Cornelius totum corpus disciplinae quinque libris complexus est, hic de una specie culturae pertinentis ad vitis singularem librum edidit. Cuius velut discipulus duo volumina similium praeceptorum de vineis Iulius Graecinus composita facetius et eruditius posteritati tradenda curavit.
Hos igitur, P. Silvine, priusquam cum agricolatione [*](filium et patrem SA. ) [*](virgilium R. ) [*](carmine R. a Regarded by Pliny (N.H. XVII. 199) as the most ancient and most distinguished husbandmen after Cato. b A contemporary of Varro and one of the speakers in Varro's agricultural treatise. c Marcus Terentius Varro. d A slave whose duty it was to guard his master's children, escort them to school, and perhaps give some elementary instruction at home. c Freedman and librarian of Augustus, and a writer of great versatility. Two works, dealing with mythology and astronomy, survive under his name. )