On agriculture /
Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus.
On agriculture / Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella ; edited and translated by Harrison Boyd Ash. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1940 - 1 v. ; 17 cm. - The Loeb classical library ; [Latin authors] 361, 407-408. . - Loeb classical library ; 361. Loeb classical library ; 407. Loeb classical library ; 408. Loeb classical library Latin authors. .
Vols. 2-3 translated by E.S. Forster and Edward H. Heffner. Vols. 2-3 rev. and repr. 1968.
Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, p. xxvii-xxxii) and indexes.
1. On agriculture, books I-IV -- 2. On agriculture, books V-IX -- 3. On agriculture X-XII. On trees.
Columella (first century CE) included Cato and Varro among many sources for On Agriculture, but his personal experience was paramount. Written in prose except for the hexameters on horticulture of Book 10, the work is richly informative about country life in first century CE Italy.
Latin and English on opposite pages.
0674993985 (v. 1) 0674994485 (v. 2) 0674994493 (v. 3)
Agriculture--Early works to 1800.
On agriculture / Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella ; edited and translated by Harrison Boyd Ash. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1940 - 1 v. ; 17 cm. - The Loeb classical library ; [Latin authors] 361, 407-408. . - Loeb classical library ; 361. Loeb classical library ; 407. Loeb classical library ; 408. Loeb classical library Latin authors. .
Vols. 2-3 translated by E.S. Forster and Edward H. Heffner. Vols. 2-3 rev. and repr. 1968.
Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, p. xxvii-xxxii) and indexes.
1. On agriculture, books I-IV -- 2. On agriculture, books V-IX -- 3. On agriculture X-XII. On trees.
Columella (first century CE) included Cato and Varro among many sources for On Agriculture, but his personal experience was paramount. Written in prose except for the hexameters on horticulture of Book 10, the work is richly informative about country life in first century CE Italy.
Latin and English on opposite pages.
0674993985 (v. 1) 0674994485 (v. 2) 0674994493 (v. 3)
Agriculture--Early works to 1800.