文档介绍：THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY
rOUNDKD BY JAMES LOBB, LI>.D.
EDITED BY
tT. E. PAGE, ., .
tE. CAPPS, ., . tW. H. D. ROUSE, .
L. A. POST, . E. H. WARMINGTON, ., .
LUCIUS JUNIUS MODERATUS
COLUMELLA
ON AGRICULTURE
II
LUCIUS JUNIUS
MODERATUS COLUMELLA
ON AGRICULTURE
WITH A RECENSION OF THE TEXT AND AN
ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY
fE. S. FORSTER, ., .(Oxox.), .
EMERITUS PROFESSOR OP GREEK, SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY
AND
EDWARD H. HEFFNER, ., .
PROFESSOR OF LATIN, UKIVERSITT OF PENNSYLVANIA
IN THREE VOLUMES
II
RES RUSTICA V-IX
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CONTENTS
PAGE
Prefatory Note ..... vii
SlOLA ....... xi
Book V 2
Measurement and Shapes of Land—Number of Plants
to be Set—Provincial Vineyards—Cultivation of Vines
and Trees for Supporting them—Olive-trees and Nurseries
—Pomiferous Trees—Grafting—Shrub-Trefoil.
Book VI 118
Oxen, their Care and Diseases—Bulls and Cows
Breeding ^Diseases Horses Medicines Mules
Diseases.
Book VII 230
The Ass—Sheep—Diseases—the Goat—Diseases
Cheese-making—Pigs—Diseases—Dogs—Diseases.
Book VIII 320
Birds and Fishes—Farmyard Poultry—Pigeons-
Thrushes—Peafowl—Amphibious Birds—Ducks—Fishes.
Book IX 420
Wild Animals—Bees, the Management of them, their
Diseases and Pests—Honey—Wax.