Geōponika: Agricultural Pursuits, Volume 2

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Concerning the proving of milk The same
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Concerning the planting of pears and the care of them The Quintilii
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Another concerning the planting of pears Diophanes
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Concerning the grafting of pears Tarentinus 25 Concerning the keeping of pears Democritus
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Concerning the planting of quinces Didymus 27 To make the quince assume any appearance Demo critus
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Concerning the keeping of quinces The same
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Concerning the planting of pomegranates and the care of them c Florentinus
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That pomegranates may not crack Africanus
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To make pomegranates grow without kernels The same
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A branch of the pomegranate keeps off venemous beasts The same
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That pomegranates may grow red Didymus
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How to make a pomegranate that is sour sweet Paxamus
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That the pomegranatetree may produce much fruit Democritus
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Having gathered a pomegranate from the tree to enu merate the kernels Africanus
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Concerning the grafting of the pomegranate Floren
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That the dry fruit of figtrees which are called ischades may keep without putrifying Paramus
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Concerning sour or immature figs Africanus 56 How one may keep green figs fresh as on the trees
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Concerning grafting the almondtree Paramus
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The same
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Concerning the planting of the medlar Didymus
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Concerning budding and grafting and what sorts
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Concerning the season for planting almonds and the care and grafting of them Florentinus
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When you ought to gather the almonds The same
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To make bitter almonds sweet Africanus
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To make almonds grow with characters on them De mocritus
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To make the almond produce steril fruit The same
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That neither trees nor vines may be hurt by worms
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Concerning the planting of the myrtle Florentinus
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Concerning pulegium Leontinus
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Concerning anethum 35 Concerning sisymbrium Damogeron
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Concerning bulbs Anatolius 37 Concerning squill Berytius 38 Concerning lapathum Africanus
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Concerning artichokes Varro
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Concerning purslane Paxamus 41 The raising of mushrooms Tarentinus
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BOOK XIII
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Concerning the bruchus Didymus
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Concerning weasels Africanus 4 Concerning domestic mice Paramus
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Concerning field mice Apuleius
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Concerning the cat Sotion 7 Concerning moles Paramus
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Concerning serpents Florentinus
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Concerning scorpions Diophanes
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tinus
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Concerning ants Paramus
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Concerning gnats Democritus
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Concerning flies Berytius
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Concerning bats Africanus 14 Concerning bugs Didymus
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Against fleas Pamphilius
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Concerning cantharides Zoroastres
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For leeches Anatolius 18 Concerning frogs Africanus
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BOOK XIV
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That pigeons may not betake themselves to flight but that they may be prompted to breed Didymus
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That pigeons may settle and that they may allure other pigeons to them The same
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That a cat may not worry pigeons 5 That a serpent may not get into the pigeonhouse De mocritus
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Concerning the pigeonhouse The Quintilii 7 Concerning domestic fowls Florentinus
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How it is possible to produce chickens without a hen Democritus
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Concerning the feeding of chickens Didymus
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To make eggs bear an inscription Africanus
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Concerning jackdaws Leontinus 26 Concerning vultures Aristotle
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BOOK XV
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Concerning patural sympathy and antipathy Zo Toastres 2 Con
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Malagma for the joints
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other reptile Hippocrates
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Concerning asses fit for admission Apsyrtus 22 Concerning camels Didymus
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BOOK XVII
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Concerning cows or heifers The same 3 Concerning bulls Didymus
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That cows may not become weak Democritus 5 Concerning admission The Quintilii
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10 From what age cows are fit for breeding Varro
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That cattle may not be infested by flies Africanus 12 To make oxen fat Sotion
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Concerning the cure of cattle and that they may not swallow any hard substance Paxamus
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Concerning an unknown disease The same 15 Concerning the headache 16 Concerning a diarrhoea
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Concerning indigestion
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Concerning the buprestes 19 Concerning the colic
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Concerning an ox that has a fever Didymus
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Concerning an ox that has a cough 22 Concerning suppuration 23 Concerning lameness Florentinus
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Concerning bile 26 Concerning a chill 27 Concerning worms 28 Concerning the loathing of provender
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Concerning watery pustules
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BOOK XVIII
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Concerning admission and yeaning Didymus
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Concerning sheep that they may follow the shepherds Africanus 5 That a ram may not be pugnacious The same 6 When a sheep is with colour the fo...
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At what time and in what manner you ought to shear your sheep Didymus
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Concerning shegoats and hegoats Florentinus
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That goats may produce much milk The same 11 That sheep and goats may not be affected by pestilential disease The Quintilii 12 Concerning milk a...
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Concerning the cure of sheep Leontinus
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Concerning the taking of wolves Diophanes
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Concerning the mange Didymus
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Concerning the ptheiriasis The same 17 Concerning different diseases Anatolius
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Compendious preparation of melca Paramus
264
BOOK XIX
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Another concerning dogs Fronto 3 Concerning the cure of dogs Theomnestus
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Concerning hares Democritus 5 Concerning stags Xenophon
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Concerning swine Florentinus
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Concerning the cure of swine Didymus
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Concerning wild swine Democritus
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Concerning the salting of all kinds of meat Didymus
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BOOK XX
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To bring fish to one place Oppian
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To take riverfish Didymus
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To bring all kinds of fish into one place Democritus 5 For taking all kinds of fish
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Concerning the catching of fish Tarentinus
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Baits for fish The same 8 Composition of bait 9 Another composition for large coracini only an excellent bait
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For riverfish which Oppian used 11 Bait to which fish promptly come
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For small riverfish 13 For the fish called porci
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For eels 15 Bait for seamullets
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Another excellent bait and fit for no other but the best mullets 17 Bait for seamullets 18 A convenient preparation that fish may come to the same spot
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Bait for surmullets and large scari that they may be attracted by it to which none of the small fish make their approach on account of the unsavourine...
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For murænæ 22 For polypodes and sepiæ 23 For other kinds of fish
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Bait for all fish in every season
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For small fish from a reed 26 Universal baits 27 For all small fish 28 Concerning weels 29 Another concerning weels
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For seamullets 31 For scorpii only 32 For seaphogri
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For raphides only 34 For tunnies only 35 For smarides
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For the
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For mullets
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For melanuri 46 Composition of garum
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Pagina 186 - Then bring into this building a bullock, two years and a half old, fleshy, and very fat. Set to work a number of young men and let them powerfully beat it, and by beating let them kill it with their bludgeons, pervading the bones along with the flesh. But let them take care that they do not make the beast bloody (for the bee is not produced from blood), not falling on it with so much violence with the first blows.
Pagina 187 - ... be animated, having attracted a sufficient portion of air, it is again proper to secure the building with clay according to the former method: having then opened it on the eleventh day after this period, you will find it full of bees crowded in clusters on each other, and the horns, and the bones, and the hair, and nothing else of the bullock left. They say indeed that the kings are produced from the brain, but the other bees from the flesh.
Pagina 186 - And let all the apertures be stopped with clean white cloths dipped in pitch, as the eyes and the mouth, and such as are formed by nature for necessary evacuation. Then having scattered a good quantity of thyme, and having laid the bullock on it, let them immediately go out of the house, and let them cover the door and the windows with strong clay, that there may be no entrance or vent to the air nor to the wind.
Pagina 187 - ... vent to the air, nor to the wind. The third week it is proper to open the building on all sides that the light and pure air may be admitted, except the side where a strong wind blows in ; for if this be the case, it is proper to keep the windows shut on this side : but when the materials seem to be animated, having attracted a sufficient portion of air, it is again proper to secure the building with clay according to the former method: having then opened it on the eleventh day after this period,...
Pagina 186 - ... be stopped with clean and fine cloths dipped in pitch ; as the eyes, and the mouth, and such as are formed by nature for necessary evacuation : then, having scattered a good quantity of thyme, and having laid the bullock on it, let them, immediately go out of the house, and let them cover the door and the windows with strong clay, that there may be no entrance nor vent to the air, nor to the wind. The third week it is proper to open the building on all sides that the light and pure air may be...
Pagina 187 - They say indeed that the kings are produced from the brain, but the other bees from the flesh. Kings are also produced from the spinal marrow. But those that are produced from the brain are superior to the others in size and beauty and in strength. But the first change and transformation of the flesh into living creatures, and as it were a conception and birth, you will thus know : for when the building is opened, you will see things small and white in appearance and like one another and not perfect,...
Pagina 127 - I adjure the mice taken in this place, that you do me no injury yourselves nor suffer another to do it: for I give you this ground (and you mention which) ; but if I again take you on this spot, I take the mother of the Gods to witness, I will divide you into seven parts.
Pagina 46 - ... xiii. 6. There is a passage in an Arabic writer, which shews that it was not unknown in the east. It relates to the fructification of the palm-tree, and runs thus : " The master, armed with an axe, approaching the tree with an attendant, says, I will cut down this tree, because it bears no fruit.
Pagina 185 - It is impossible to resist transcribing this glaring evidence of antieiit folly, credulity, and cruelty: ' Let there be a building ten cubits high, and of the same number of cubits in breadth and of equal dimensions at all sides, and let there be one entrance, and four windows made in it, one window in each...
Pagina 186 - ... folly, credulity, and cruelty: ' Let there be a building ten cubits high, and of the same number of cubits in breadth and of equal dimensions at all sides, and let there be one entrance, and four windows made in it, one window in each vail : then bring into this building a bullock, two years...

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