Columella (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."
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Columella is in three
volumes.
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