Writers on Agriculture (Scriptores Rei Rusticae)

Strigosus: is said of a beast of burden whose body is drawn thin emaciated by hunger or another cause of defect. For strigosus is as if stringosus, from stringendo drawing tight/compressing.
Inire: is to copulate, when the female receives the male. Whence we read of women being "entered" by men.
Equienti mulae: mules seeking a horse, as we believe.
Suffraginosa mula: whose hocks are ruined by disease.
Hyoſcyamos henbane: is an herb.
Galactopotae: milk drinkers.
Nomades: are called pastors whose whole life is occupied in feeding flocks, from the Greek nemo, that is, "I feed."
Tectum pecus housed flock: is said in distinction to the colonicum farm-flock; it is called "housed" because it was covered with coverings.
Altinates: from Altinum: which city was once very flourishing on the shore of Venice.
Tarentinae oues: from Tarentum: about which sheep [there is] more in the Plautine questions.
Polentia: a city near the Alps dividing Italy from Gaul.
Betica: a part of Spain, named from a river.
Molle pecus soft flock is housed; truly, the hairy flock is the farm-flock.
Munerarii: were so called because they gave munera gifts/shows, that is, games to the people.
Matrices: those which give birth and generate offspring.
Colostrum: is called the first, spongy density of milk after birth: it is also a disease called colostra, by which the nursing are tempted if they have tasted maternal milk within two days of birth.
Grauedo: a heavier and thicker catarrh: hence grauedinosi those with colds.
Laciniae: are said of clothes; likewise, separate animals divided into parts are said to be segregated into strips.
Claui: a disease usually attacking the feet.
Chordum foenum: is hay born late.
Mendesius: a possessive from a city of Egypt.
Nepita: is an herb which is called calamitis in Greek.
Flaccidi: from flaccis flabby: those whose ears are hanging and not erect.
Hystera in Greek, secundae afterbirth in Latin: are the sacs containing the fetus in the mother's womb with the menses.
Eximii: are properly pigs which, having been chosen from the flock, are fed free to be sacrificed.
Muria: salt medicated and hardened with water, about which more [in] Columella.
Termes, termitis: a branch cut from a tree.
Paliurus: is a tree of Africa producing a sweet fruit with which wines are seasoned.
Lotos: is also a tree peculiar to Africa, with whose berries men feed.
Ichthyotrophia: places in which fish are fed.
Lagotrophia: a rabbit warren.