Columella Res Rustica 1.1.15

ed. Harrison Boyd Ash, ed. E. S. Forster, ed. Edward H. Heffner

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Res Rustica. Columella. ed. Harrison Boyd Ash, ed. E. S. Forster, ed. Edward H. Heffner. London. 1941-1955.

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Current edition Perseus

Res Rustica. Books I-IX (Columella. On agriculture, Volume 1-2. Ash, Harrison Boyd; Foster, Edward Seymour; Heffner, Edward H., editors. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1941.)

Notes on the current edition

Res Rustica

1. filium et patrem SA.
2. virgilium R.
3. carmine R. a Regarded by Pliny (N.H. XVII. 199) as the most ancient and most distinguished husbandmen after Cato. b A contemporary of Varro and one of the speakers in Varro's agricultural treatise. c Marcus Terentius Varro. d A slave whose duty it was to guard his master's children, escort them to school, and perhaps give some elementary instruction at home. c Freedman and librarian of Augustus, and a writer of great versatility. Two works, dealing with mythology and astronomy, survive under his name.
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