Columella

Portrait of Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella from [[Jean de Tournes]], ''Insignium aliquot virorum icones'', [[Lyon]], 1559 Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella (; Arabic: , 4 – ) was a prominent writer on agriculture in the Roman Empire.

His ' in twelve volumes has been completely preserved and forms an important source on Roman agriculture, together with the works of Cato the Elder and Marcus Terentius Varro, both of which he occasionally cites. A smaller book on trees, ', is usually attributed to him.

In 1794 the Spanish botanists José Antonio Pavón Jiménez and Hipólito Ruiz López named a genus of Peruvian asterid ''Columellia'' in his honour. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1941-1968.
    3 v. : ill. ; 17 cm.
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    Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1941-1968.
    3 v. : ill. ; 17 cm.
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    Parisiis, R. Stephani, 1543.
    498, [20] p. incl. diagrs. 17 cm.
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    Paris : Denys Ianot, [1540]
    1 v. (unpaged) : ill.
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    [Rome, Adam Rot, 1472]
    28 p. 4to.
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    Bononię [Bologna] : Impressum a Hieronymo de Benedictis [Benedetti], 1520.
    [62] p. ; 31 cm.
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    Venetia [n.pr.] 1544.
    [11], 263, [1] leaves : ill. ; 16 cm. (8vo)
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    Lvgdvni, apud S. Gryphium, 1541.
    491, [17] p. illus.
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    [n.p., n.d.]
    430 p. fol.
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    Bologna, Benedictus Hectoris, 1504]
    623 p. 4to.
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    Lvgdvni, S. Gryphivm, 1548.
    491, [17] p. 17 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus...”
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    by Henderson, John, 1949-
    Published 2004
    London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
    ix, 152 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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    Published 1595
    [Heidelbergae] ex Hier. Commelini typographio, 1595.
    12 p. l., 775 p. 18 cm.
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    Published 1504
    Bonon[iae, i.e. Bologna] : impensis Benedicti Hectoris Bononiensis, 1504.
    302 leaves.
    Other Authors: “...Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus...”
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