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COLUMELLA, LUCIUS JUNIUS MODERATUS

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COLUMELLA, See also:LUCIUS See also:JUNIUS MODERATUS , of Gades, writer on See also:agriculture, contemporary of See also:Seneca the philosopher, flourished about the See also:middle of the 1st See also:century A.D. His extant See also:works treat, with See also:great fulness and in a diffuse but not inelegant See also:style which well represents the See also:silver See also:age, of the cultivation of all kinds of See also:corn and See also:garden vegetables, trees, See also:flowers, the See also:vine, the See also:olive and other fruits, and of the rearing of See also:cattle, birds, fishes and bees. They consist of the twelve books of the De re rustica (the tenth, which treats of gardening, being in dactylic hexameters in See also:imitation of See also:Virgil), and of a See also:book De arboribus, the second book of an earlier and less elaborate See also:work on the same subject. The best See also:complete edition is by J. G. See also:Schneider (1794). Of a new edition by K. J. Lundstrom, the tenth book appeared in 1902 and De arboribus in 1897. There are See also:English See also:translations by R. See also:Bradley (1725), and See also:anonymous (1745); and See also:treatises, De Columellae vita et scriptis, by V. Barberet (1887), and G.

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Becher (1897), a compact dissertation with notes and references to authorities.

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