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He was a native of Bceotia in Spain, and had de- 

 voted the principal part of his time to the ftudy 

 of Agriculture. 



This art received likewife great improvement 

 from the two SAFFERNiE, Scorfa, Tremellius, 

 and Tirentius. 



Palladius alfo wrote fcveral trcatifes on the 

 fame fubjcdl. 



From this period to that of the reign of Con- 

 stantine Poganatus, hufbandry continued in a 

 declining (late; but that wife Emperor caufed a 

 large collection of the moft ufeful precepts re- 

 lating to Agriculture to be extracted from the 

 beft writers, and publilhed them under the title 

 of Geoponics. It has been aiTerted, that he made 

 this collection with his own hand; and the truth 

 of the aflertion is not improbable, as it is well 

 known, that after he had conquered the Saracens 

 and the Arabians, he not only practifed and en- 

 couraged, but ftudied the arts of peace, fixing his 

 principal attention on Agriculture, as their belt 

 foundation. 



But after the death of Constantine, the in- 



creaiing attention of the people to commerce, and 



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