SCRIPTURA

Classical Latin

On Agriculture · Res rustica

Columella

Translated by Harrison Boyd Ash

The fullest Roman manual of farming: choosing land, sowing grain, vines and olives, cattle, poultry, fish and bees, in the first nine of its twelve books.

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  • Latin: ed. Harrison Boyd Ash, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit, phi0845.phi002, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: Harrison Boyd Ash, from the Perseus Digital Library (phi0845.phi002.perseus-eng1). Notes are not included.
  • Rows follow the references the two texts share (books, chapters and sections), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.

Contents · 9

  1. 1Book I
  2. 2Book II
  3. 3Book III
  4. 4Book IV
  5. 5Book V
  6. 6Book VI
  7. 7Book VII
  8. 8Book VIII
  9. 9Book IX