Writers on Agriculture (Scriptores Rei Rusticae)

Emblema: from the origin of the word, which is Greek, it signifies small tesserae tiles, with which paved floors are varied and made multicolored.
Comitia ædilitia: in which aediles were created.
Sectores: they were called this because they followed the hope of their own profit, auctioning the goods of the condemned and weighing out money for them individually; the action itself is called sectio.
Citrus: a most precious wood with which the ancients adorned their couches; it is of neutral gender.
Hamoniū: a type of color tending toward reddish-brown.
Apri miliarii: Romans called those of a thousand pounds, which they were accustomed to serve at banquets, "millenarian boars."
Apparuit: he was present or compliant, from which also come apparitores servants/attendants.
Post principia: a place in the camp named from the leading soldiers. post principia

Scarus: a fish that is said to be the only one among fishes to ruminate and feed on herbs.
Rhynthon: a very worthless Tarentine trifler, especially in the performance of plays, to whom both Varro and Columella allude; among their texts, one sometimes reads "Mython," other times "Rhynthon."
Lupus: a fish formerly precious, which was woolly or perhaps 'white-fleshed' and caught under the mouth of rivers.
Mazonomum: a Greek word; it properly signifies a platter for bringing food to the table.
Cancelli: timbers fastened transversely at moderate intervals, with which stage sets, tribunals, and windows were protected.
Archethypon in Greek: exemplar in Latin.
Despondere animum: is to determine the end of one's life.
Palmaria: an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Coturnices: migratory birds that are terrestrial rather than aerial. The common people now call these qualeas; for them, the seed of poison is a most pleasant food, for which reason people condemned them from the table, as well as because of the comitial disease epilepsy.
Tholus: the timber to which the roof of a temple adheres; some Greeks explain it as being a round house.
Theatridion: a diminutive in Greek form from the word theatre.
Suggestus: or suggestum, as here; it is made from suggero to build up/support and is a slightly elevated place.
Peripetasmata: these are curtains which are extended to enclose and decorate a place.
Culcitra: so called because stuffing or a blanket is crammed inculcet into it.
Epistomion: denotes an opening through which water flows out.
Adicialis cœna: was a fatty and sumptuous banquet, from the act of adding adiciendo.
Peristerotrophion: that is, a dovecote.
Pulliciuʒ: derived from pullis chicks; it is the breeding of chicks.
Canabinæ: a possessive from the herb hemp canabe.
Ornitoboscion: a place for raising chickens and birds.
Excluder̄: birds are said to do this after the legitimate incubation of chicks from the eggs. Elsewhere it is written as excludere.