Writers on Agriculture (Scriptores Rei Rusticae)

Cruditas: a redundancy of the stomach which is born from poor digestion.
Chiron and Melampus: outstanding physicians from whose names herbs were also named, centaurea centaury and melampodion black hellebore.
Suscribere: to favor, properly in the pleading of cases, from which come suscriptores supporters/advocates.
Antolicus: the maternal grandfather of Ulysses, the most thieving of all.
Pedamentum: a support for a vine.
Natrix: a type of swimming serpent.
Nex?: is called a certain obligation which was performed through copper and scales.
Signinum op?: was fashioned from broken tiles with lime added.
Cortiale: descends from cortia, when it signifies a table or a wall.
Apotecae: where wine is stored.
Tribularium: seems to be made from tribula; for the tribula is an instrument for threshing grain.
Optima noīa: the best debtors, from which comes pecūiae money in men meaning the credit-worthiness of individuals.
Bestiariis: those who disposed of beasts. If it is read as uestiariis, it signifies a place for keeping garments.
Mediastinus: one who dwells in the middle of the city, or an attendant of bathers and a curator of houses.
Vernactum: as if "in the spring" uere done; it is when fields are pruned for the first time in the spring, said in distinction to restibilis sown year after year.
Alicastrum: we think it is derived from alica in that form by which siliquastrum is derived from siliqua pod.
Ptīsana: seems to be a type of porridge made from barley groats.
Capisterium: we think it is a type of rustic vessel; it would be better to read scaphisterium.
Hyaena: is a wild and rustic animal, which they say is a male in alternating years and a female in alternating years; it also imitates human speech. In its spine, there is a joint or node effective for medicines.
Hexasticon: of six lines or verses.
Disticon: of two lines or verses.
Septimuntialis satio: the planting is named from the sacrifice of the Septimuntialia, which took place in seven places of the city of Rome, named Septimuntium from the seven mountains on which Rome is situated.
Grumus: is called a mound or a little hill, dug from the earth.
Strigæ: the orders of things placed continuously within themselves are called this, named from stringendo binding/compressing.
Sicilire: is to cut those things which the hay-cutters have passed over.
Fœnisecæ: those who cut hay are called this.
Collucare: they also said this when the branches of a dense forest were cut away which were obstructing the light.
Catulo feceris: that is, you have sacrificed to the little dog; for the sake of appeasing this constellation referring to the Dog Star, Sirius which is hostile to crops, they sacrificed dogs; for "to do" means to sacrifice.
Sedum: is an herb which others call by the name anagorum.
Pellibus oues uestiri: how sheep are "clad" in skins, that is, how they are covered with skins to