BOOK I 



varieties of corn required per acre ; seasons for 

 sowing ; position of stars from da)'- to day and 

 earthly signs as to agricultural operations. (Ixii- 

 Ixxiv) Agricultural operations proper to the several 

 months ; poppies ; hay ; causes of various kinds of 

 infertility ; remedies ; harvests, storage of corn, 

 vintage and autunm operations. (Ixxv f.) Conditions 

 of the moon, of the winds. (Ixxvii) Fixing of 

 bounds of estates. (Ixxviii-xc) Weather-forecasts : 

 from the sun, moon, stars, thunder-clouds, mists, 

 earth-fires, waters ; from the seasons themselves ; 

 from aquatic animals, from birds, from quadrupeds. 

 Total : 2060 facts, researches and observations. 



Authorities : Masurius Sabinus, Cassius Hera- 

 ina, Verrius Flaccus, Lucius Piso, Cornelius Celsus, 

 Turranius Gracilis, Decimus Silanus, Marcus Varro, 

 Cato the ex-Censor, Scrofa, the Sasernae senior and 

 junior, Domitius Calvinus, Hyginus, Virgil, Trogus, 

 O^dd, Graecinus, Columella, Tubero, Lucius Taru- 

 tius's Greek treatise On the Stars, Caesar the Dictator 

 ditto, Sergius PauUus, Sabinus Fabianus, Marcus 

 Cicero, Calpurnius Bassus, Ateius Capito, Mamilius 

 Sura, Accius's Praxidica. Foreign authorities : 

 Hesiod, Theophrastus, Aristotle, Democritus, King 

 Hiero, King Philometer, King Attalus, King Arche- 

 laus, Archytas, Xenophon, Amphilochus of Athens. 

 Anaxipohs of Thasos, Apollodorus of Lemnos, 

 Aristophanes of Miletus, Antigonus of Cumae, 

 Agathocles of Chios, ApoUonius of Pergamos, 

 Aristander of Athens, Bacchius of Miletus, Bion of 

 Soh, Chaereas of Athens, Chaeristus ditto, Diodorus of 

 Priene, Dinon of Colophon, Epigenes of Rhodes, 

 Evagon of Thasos, Euphronius of Athens, Androtion 

 On Agriculture, Aeschrio ditto, Lysimachus ditto, 



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