On Agriculture, Volume III: Books 10-12. on Trees [Latin]

by Columella

A Roman farmer on farming.

Columella (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived in the reigns of the first emperors to about AD 70. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Latin
• ISBN: 0674994493
• ISBN13: 9780674994492
• Release Date: January 1955
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.5" x 6.6"