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MARTIALIS, QUINTUS GARGILIUS

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MARTIALIS, See also:QUINTUS GARGILIUS , a Latin writer on horticultural subjects. He has been identified by some with the military See also:commander of the same name, mentioned in a Latin inscription of A.D. 260 (C. I. L. viii. 9047) as having lost his See also:life in the See also:colony of Auzia (See also:Aumale) in See also:Mauretania Caesariensis. Considerable fragments of his See also:work (probably called De hortis), which treated of the cultivation of trees and vegetables, and also of their medicinal properties, have survived, chiefly in the See also:body of and as an appendix to the Medicina Plinii (an See also:anonymous 4th See also:century handbook of medical recipes based upon See also:Pliny, Nat. Hist. xx.–xxxii.). Extant sections treat of apples, peaches, quinces, almonds and chestnuts. Gargilius also wrote a See also:treatise on the tending of See also:cattle (De curis bourn), and a See also:biography of the See also:emperor See also:Alexander See also:Severus is attributed by two of the Scriptores historiae Augustae (Aelius Lampridius and Flavius Vopiscus) to a Gargilius Martialis, who may be the same See also:person.

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