BOOK I 



Authorities : Marcus Varro, Mucianus, Virgil, 

 Fabianus, Sebosus, Pomponius Mela, Flavius Pi-o- 

 cilius, Hyginus, Trogus, Claudius Caesar, Comelius 

 Nepos, Sextus Niger's Greek treatise On Medicine, 

 Cassius Hemina, Lucius Piso, Tuditanus, Antias. 

 Foreign authorities : Theophrastus, Herodotus, 

 CalUsthenes, Isogonus, CHtarchus, Anaximenes,Duris, 

 Nearchus, Onesicritus, Polycritus, Olympiodorus, 

 Diognetus, Nicobulus, AnticUdes, Chares of Mitylene, 

 Menaechmus, Dorotheus of Athens, Lycus, Antaeus, 

 Ephippus, Dinon, Adimantus, Ptolemy son of 

 Lagus, Marsyas of Macedon, Zoilus ditto, Demo- 

 critus, Amphilochus, Aristomachus, Alexander the 

 Learned, Juba, ApoUodorus On Scents ; the following 

 medical writers — HeracUdes, Botrys, Archedemus, 

 Dionysius, Democedes, Euphron, Mnesides, Diagoras, 

 loUas ; HeracUdes of Tarentum, Xenophon of 

 Ephesus. 



Book XIV. Contents : fruit-trees. (i-v) Vines, 

 their nature ; their ways of bearing ; grapes, their 

 nature and tending ; 91 kinds of vines and grapes ; 

 viticulture and vineyards, noteworthy facts as to 

 (vi-xi) Mead, its discovery ; 50 wines of quaUty ; 

 38 foreign vintages ; Opimian 'wdne ; wine-ceUars, 

 notable facts as to; nature of wine ; salt wine, 7 

 kinds ; raisin-wine, must, sweet wine, 17 kinds. 

 (xu) Inferior ^vines, 3 kinds. (xiii-xvii) Wines of 

 quality, how recently begun to be made in Italy ; 

 remarks as to wine from reign of Romulus onwards ; 

 wines used in early periods ; four kinds of wine, 

 when first estabUshed. (xviii-xxi) Wild vine, 5 uses 

 of; what juice by nature the coldest; artificial 

 wine, 66 kinds ; mead or honey-wine or water-mead ; 

 vinegar-honey. (xxii-v) Remarkable wines, 12 kinds ; 



