02491nam 2200409 450 99619923910331620231103112138.00-674-99448-5(CKB)3820000000012253(NjHacI)993820000000012253(EXLCZ)99382000000001225320231103d1954 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierOn AgricultureVolume II /Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella ; E. S. Forster, Edward H. Heffner, editorsCambridge, MA :Harvard University Press,1954.1 online resource (516 pages)Loeb classical library ;407Columella (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.Loeb classical library ;407.AgricultureEarly works to 1800Sustainable agricultureAgricultureSustainable agriculture.630Columella Lucius Junius Moderatus71617Forster E. S(Edward Seymour),1879-1950,Heffner Edward H(Edward Hoch),1886-1963,NjHacINjHaclBOOK996199239103316On agriculture278781UNISA