INTRODUCTION 



Hiiussner,! by Lundstrom, and by Postgate,^ whose 

 critical apparatus is an abridgement of the manu- 

 script variants published by Haussner and Lundstrom. 

 Modern contributors to Columelliana, many of them 

 pupils of Lundstrom, include in addition to those 

 above mentioned the names of M. Ahle, P. Kottman, 

 W. KoUer, R. Pomoell, J. Svennung, T. Kleberg, 

 G. Nystrom, F. Prix, H. Linde, N. Dahllof, E. Weiss, 

 C. Brakman, E. Stettner, G. Helmreich, P. G. Krauss, 

 and Lizzie B. Marshall. 



The text and manuscript readings of the present 

 volume rest, for Books I-II, substantially on the work 

 of Lundstrom. For Books III-IV, the translator has 

 attempted to construct a critical text in some approxi- 

 mation to that of Lundstrom by the collation of four 

 major manuscripts with the text of Schneider. He 

 has also added throughout important conjectures 

 and divergences of reading of other editors and com- 

 mentators, together with the variants of the Morgan 

 Ms. Major departures from the respective texts of 

 Lundstrom and of Schneider are noted. The sigla 

 of Lundstrom are preserved. 



^ J. Haussner, Die handschriftliche Ueberlieferung des L. 

 Junius Moderatus Columella, mil einer kritischen Ausgabe des 

 X. Buches, Karlsruhe, 1889. 



* J. P. Postgate, Corpus Poelarum Latinorum, London, 1905, 

 Vol. II, pp. 206-209. 



