LUCIUS JUNIUS MODERATUS COLUMELLA 



gentis fuit) iani nunc M. Catonem Censorium ilium 

 memoremus, qui earn latine loqui piinuis instituit, 

 post hunc duos Sasernas, patrera et filium,^ qui earn 

 diligentius erudiverunt, ac deinde Scrofam Treme- 

 lium, qui etiam eloquentem reddidit, et M. Terentium 

 qui expolivit, mox \ ergilium,^ qui carniinum ^ quoque 



13 potentem fecit. Nee postremo quasi paedagogi 

 eius meminisse dedignemur luli Hygini, verimi tamen 

 ut Carthaginiensem Magonem rusticationis parentem 

 maxime veneremur ; nam huius octo et viginti 

 memorabilia ilia volumina ex senatus consulto in 



14 Latinum sermonem conversa sunt. Non minorem 

 tamen laudem meruerunt nostrorum temporum viri 

 Cornelius Celsus et lulius Atticus, quippe Cornelius 

 totum corpus disciplinae quinque libris complexus est, 

 hie de una specie culturae pertinentis ad vitis singu- 

 larem librum edidit. Cuius velut discipulus duo 

 volumina similium praeceptorum de vineis lulius 

 Graecinus composita facetius et eruditius posteritati 

 tradenda curavit. 



15 Hos igitur, P. Silvine, priusquam cum agricolatione 



^ filium et patrem SA. * virgilium R. 



* carmine R. 



" Regarded by Pliny {N.H. XVII. 199) as the most ancient 

 and most distinguished husbandmen after Cato. 



'' A contemporary of Varro and one of the speakers in 

 Varro's agricultural treatise. 



' Marcus Terentius Varro. 



'' A slave whose duty it was to guard his master's children, 

 escort them to school, and perhaps give some elementary 

 instruction at home. 



' Freedman and librarian of Augustus, and a writer of great 

 versatility. Two works, dealing with mythology and 

 astronomy, survive under his name. 



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