Writers on Agriculture (Scriptores Rei Rusticae)

Epistates

Epistates: A tutor or the overseer of a task to be performed.

Compitalia: Festivals held at the crossroads. For crossroads compita are defined as places where many roads meet.

Sculponeas: We consider these to be shoes made of wood original: "ex lana confectos" the Latin text says 'from wool', but standard commentary identifies these as wooden clogs.

Halecem: Halex fish sauce/dregs is feminine in gender according to Cato, and we consider it a type of cheap fish, although elsewhere we read it refers to the dregs from the intestines of fish, which once provided substance for the taverns.

Oleitas or oletas, like oliuitas: It is the season for gathering olives, and the fruit of the olive tree itself.

Leguli: Gatherers of olives.

Factores: Those who make oil are so called; from this comes the word factus made/done.

Capulatores: Those who draw off oil with scoops; for capulae are vessels with handles.

Fracescere: Olives are said to fracescere when, after being collected, they rot due to heat and age.

Stringere: To pluck and gather; from this come strictiuae olives, which are gathered by hand, as opposed to those that fall on their own.

Deplere: To empty out.

Imbuere: To stain, or to dip for the first time.

Patibulum: A wooden bolt or bar.

Fraces: The flesh of olives, and from this, the dregs.

Cortia: A vessel into which oil or other liquid flows.

Ulpicum: A type of garlic; it is called by another name, Libyan garlic.

Depsere

Depsiticum: From depsere to knead; for depsere is to make something soft and tender by working it with the hands, a word Cato uses frequently.

Condepsere: To mix together and soften by working; this word is derived from Greek.

Similago: And similar terms are delicacies of wheat flour.

Zea : Spelta Alica

Alica: Made from zea emmer/spelt; the Greeks call zea spelta spelt.

Spira

Spira: Called the base of a column of a single torus, also a type of pastry, and a ship's rope coiled in a circle.

Sphaericum: From sphaera sphere; that is, roundness.

Amylum: Made without a mill original: "sine mola factum".

Cremor: Milk expressed from grain soaked in water.

Maena: A type of fish.

Serta campanica: A herb we call melilot.

Schoenus: The lentisk tree.

Pauicula: So called from pauiendo striking; that is, from striking.

Grossi: These are the first, unripe figs.

friare

Infriare: To sprinkle something lightly by rubbing it with the fingers.

Conuoluolus: From conuoluere to roll together; it is a type of worm that wraps itself in vine leaves, whence it is also called inuoluolus.

Acceptabuli: When the measure is spoken of, a fourth part of a hemina half-sextarius is meant.