On agriculture / Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella ; edited and translated by Harrison Boyd Ash.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Latin Original language: Latin Series: Loeb classical library ; 361. | Loeb classical library ; 407. | Loeb classical library ; 408. | Loeb classical library. Latin authors.Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1940 (1993-1997 printings)Description: 1 v. ; 17 cmISBN:
  • 0674993985 (v. 1)
  • 0674994485 (v. 2)
  • 0674994493 (v. 3)
Contained works:
  • De arboribus. English & Latin. 1955
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Contents:
1. On agriculture, books I-IV -- 2. On agriculture, books V-IX -- 3. On agriculture X-XII. On trees.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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