Writers on Agriculture (Scriptores Rei Rusticae)

Abacus: A table for construction and kitchen work.

Solium and labrum are vessels that were used in the bath.

Falces sirpiculae: From sirpando, that is, from binding; for they use these in binding the vine.

Sparteæ: From spartum; for spartum is an Iberian herb; some Latins interpret it as broom.

Infundibulum: That with which we pour liquids into vessels.

Amerinæ: From the town of Ameria, where there was much Amerian willow, which the common people now call chaste tree.

Scutriscum: A type of vessel; it seems to be derived from the Greek form from scutra.

Inibi: And so immediately.

Subliat: That is, it is pinned?.

Polubrum: A vessel for water.

Lingula: A diminutive from lingua tongue; it seems to signify here a hollow wood or stone, through which water or wine flows. But we will speak more of this word in the Plautine Questions.

Clostra: From closing.

Robusteus: From oak.

Iligneas: Possessive from holm-oak.

Pauito: Strike and beat.

Tortiuum uinum: Wine that has been newly pressed.

Distabescat: To waste away greatly; to be consumed, corrupted, or melted.

Aqui-solios: From the holly tree original: "arbore aquifolio".

Indidem: That is, immediately; from inde and idem.

Equile: From horse, just as sheepfold ouile and cattle-shed bouile.

Coagmenta: Close and comparable joints, from cogendo, that is, by tightening.

Rufrimateria and Pompeii are towns of Campania.

Præliganeum uinum: From selecting beforehand.

Lorea Lora Lorea and lora are made from grape skins soaked in water.

Ablaqueare: Derived from lacu trench/hollow; it is when the earth is dug up and we cut back the upper roots.

Glubito: Strip off the bark; more on this in the Plautine Questions.

Rapina: From turnip rapum, likewise rapitium.

Rudetum: Land that had previously been rough and uncultivated, but has now been plowed.

Cariosus: From decay carie; for decay is putrefaction and old age.

Cementa: Stones with which buildings are raised.

Silenti luna: When the moon is joining, that is, during the new moon.

Taleæ: These are cuttings of wood and trimmings.

Sesquipes: One foot with half of another.

Meta: A heap or pile tending toward a point, which is called a pyramid in Greek.