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In the third century CE, the North African polymath, soldier, and
provincial official Q. Gargilius Martialis (died 260) wrote a
treatise on the cultivation and medical use of fruits, vegetables,
and herbs. The agricultural part of this work survives in a
fragmentary state in a single manuscript. Despite this impediment,
the agricultural writings are noteworthy for the clear marks both
of their meticulous research and of the application of independent
judgement and experience. Gargilius furthermore presents his advice
in a stylized and literary form that strives for elegance through
the use of prose rhythm, rhetorical variatio, and figurative
language. The fragments will be valuable for those interested in
ancient agriculture, in Greco-Roman authorship on the technai or
artes, and in the history and sociolinguistics of Latin. This
volume offers a new edition and the first English translation of
Gargilius' agricultural fragments as well as an introduction and
full-scale commentary.
In the third century CE, the North African polymath, soldier, and
provincial official Q. Gargilius Martialis (died 260) wrote a
treatise on the cultivation and medical use of fruits, vegetables,
and herbs. The agricultural part of this work survives in a
fragmentary state in a single manuscript. Despite this impediment,
the agricultural writings are noteworthy for the clear marks both
of their meticulous research and of the application of independent
judgement and experience. Gargilius furthermore presents his advice
in a stylized and literary form that strives for elegance through
the use of prose rhythm, rhetorical variatio, and figurative
language. The fragments will be valuable for those interested in
ancient agriculture, in Greco-Roman authorship on the technai or
artes, and in the history and sociolinguistics of Latin. This
volume offers a new edition and the first English translation of
Gargilius' agricultural fragments as well as an introduction and
full-scale commentary.
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