LEADER 02319nam 2200397 450 001 996199239403316 005 20231103112137.0 010 $a0-674-99398-5 035 $a(CKB)3820000000012252 035 $a(NjHacI)993820000000012252 035 $a(EXLCZ)993820000000012252 100 $a20231103d1968 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aOn Agriculture$hVolume I /$fLucius Junius Moderatus Columella ; Harrison Boyd Ash (translator) 210 1$aCambridge, MA :$cHarvard University Press,$d1968. 215 $a1 online resource (461 pages) 225 1 $aLoeb classical library 330 $aColumella (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived in the reigns of the first emperors to about 70 CE. He moved early in life to Italy where he owned farms and lived near Rome. It is probable that he did military service in Syria and Cilicia and that he died at Tarentum. Columella's On Agriculture (De Re Rustica) is the most comprehensive, systematic and detailed of Roman agricultural works. Book I covers choice of farming site; water supply; buildings; staff. II: Ploughing; fertilising; care of crops. III, IV, V: Cultivation, grafting and pruning of fruit trees, vines, and olives. VI: Acquisition, breeding, and rearing of oxen, horses, and mules; veterinary medicine. VII: Sheep, goats, pigs, and dogs. VIII: Poultry; fish ponds. IX: Bee-keeping. X (in hexameter poetry): Gardening. XI: Duties of the overseer of a farm; calendar for farm work; more on gardening. XII: Duties of the overseer's wife; manufacture of wines; pickling; preserving. There is also a separate treatise, Trees (De Arboribus), on vines and olives and various trees, perhaps part of an otherwise lost work written before On Agriculture. 410 0$aLoeb classical library. 606 $aAgriculture$vEarly works to 1800 606 $aSustainable agriculture 615 0$aAgriculture 615 0$aSustainable agriculture. 676 $a630 700 $aColumella$b Lucius Junius Moderatus$071617 702 $aAsh$b Harrison Boyd$f1891-1944, 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996199239403316 996 $aOn agriculture$9278781 997 $aUNISA