BOOK I 



Apollonius of Pergamum, Bacchius of Miletus, Bion of 

 Soli, Chaereas of Athens, Chaeristus ditto, Diodorus 

 of Priene, Dinon of Colophon, Epigenes of Rhodes, 

 Evagon of Thasos, Euphronius of Athens, Androtion 

 On Agriculture, Aeschrion ditto, Lysimachus ditto, 

 Dionysius's translation of Mago, Diophanes's 

 summary of Dionysius, Aristander On Portents. 



Book XVIII. Contents : crops, their natures. (i) 

 Devotion to agriculture in early times. (ii) The 

 earHest wreath at Rome ; the wreath of ears of corn ; 

 (iii) The acre. (iv) Number and dates of lowest falls 

 in price of corn. (v) Distinguished authorities on 

 agriculture. (vi) Rules for preparing the ground. 

 (vii) Location of homesteads. (viii) Old authorities 

 on methods of agriculture. (ix) Kinds of grain. 

 (x-xxix) Properties of corn according to kinds ; 

 emmer, wheat, barley, pearl-bnrley ; barley-groats ; 

 porridge, starch, common wLeat, wheat-flour, two 

 grain wheat, seed ; the remaiuing kinds in the east ; 

 modes of grinding ; sesame, erysimum or irio, clary, 

 species of millet ; yeasts ; bread, methods of making 

 and kinds of ; when bakers began at Rome. (xxx- 

 xxxvi) Leguminous plants : beans, kinds of chick- 

 pea, calavance, pea ; turnips, navews, lupin. 

 (xxxvii-xliii) Fodder : vetch, pulse, fenugreek, 

 secale or rye, mixed fodder, basil, bitter vetch ; 

 lucerne. (xliv f.) Oats ; corn diseases, remedies. 

 (xlvi) Proper crops to sow in various kinds of soil. 

 (xlvii) National differences in methods of sowing. 

 (xlviii-1) Kinds of plough ; mcthod of ploiighing ; 

 harrowing, weeding, hceing ; cross-harrowing. (li-liii) 

 Greatest fertility of soil ; method of cropping 

 same field more than once a year ; manuring. 

 (liv-lxi) Seed-testing ; amount of seed of different 



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