Columella
Roman writer on agriculture
Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella (Gades, Hispania Baetica, AD 4 – ca. AD 70) is the most important writer on agriculture of the Roman empire.
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- Oculos et vestigia domini, res agro saluberrimas, facilius admittit.
- He allows very readily, that the eyes and footsteps of the master are things most salutary to the land.
- De Re Rustica, IV. 18: Quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), Lemma "Agriculture" p. 18-19.
