On agriculture

Author(s)

• Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus
• Ash, Harrison Boyd
• Forster, E. S. (Edward Seymour)
• Heffner, Edward H.

Bibliographic Information

On agriculture

Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella ; with a recension of the text and an English translation by Harrison Boyd Ash

（The Loeb classical library, 361, 407-408）

Harvard University Press , William Heinemann, 1968-1977

Rev. and repr

• 1 : us
• 1 : uk
• 2
• 3

Other Title

Res rustica

On agriculture and trees

Note

Latin text and parallel English translation on opposite pages

Reprint. First printed 1941-1955

2-3: translated by E. S. Forster and Edward H. Heffner

Title of 3: On agriculture and trees

Contents: 1. Res rustica I-IV -- 2. Res rustica V-IX -- 3. Res rustica X-XII, De arboribus

Bibliography: 1, p. xxvii-xxxi

Includes index

Contents of Works

• 3. De arboribus = On trees

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

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Details

• NCID: BA10004555
• ISBN:
  • 0674993985
  • 0434993611
  • 0674994485
  • 0674994493
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: englat
• Original Language Code: lat
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.,London
• Pages/Volumes: 3 v.
• Size: 17 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00254115