Writers on Agriculture (Scriptores Rei Rusticae)

Rusticæ gallinæ country hens: are wild chickens with a longer beak, which are also called rusticulæ little country-ones by diminution.
Cohortales gallinæ: which are fed at home in the courtyard.
Meleagrides, and Numidian hens, and spotted ones: are birds which are also called African guinea fowl.
Lanistæ: were called those who taught swordsmanship at home: gladiators whom they would then sell to the munerarii game-givers.
Pyctes: is interpreted as a boxer.
Pumiles and pumiliones: are said of men: "nani" in Greek dwarves. Hens are also called pumiles dwarfish.
Melicæ gallinæ: because the body of that kind of bird is fuller in the middle: the letter 'L' substituted for 'D' referring to 'Medicae'. Media: a region of the East: from which the Medes, who are also called Persians, are named.
Asserculus: a diminutive from asser beam/lath.
Scandulæ: are made from oak, fir, and spruce, split or cut into small pieces.
Temporius: an adverb derived from the adverb tempori: which signifies opportunely and in a timely manner.
Pullationem: we think the same as pullicium: this is the breeding of chicks.
Nidor: the odor of roasted things.
Gliscere: is to grow: whence pergliscit it grows exceedingly, it grows greatly through the preparation of feasts.
Paxillus: a diminutive from palus stake.
Loculamenta: seem to be derived from loculis small places; and they signify little boxes.
Despondent: in this place, they determine to die. Plautus and Varro add animum spirit.
Porrum tarentinum: is called by another name, sectiuum cutting-leek.
Vrinatores divers Vrinare: is to be submerged. Hence urinatores who swim under water.
Mugiles: are fish of such remarkable speed that they swim over moving ships.
Tamaricum: is also a shrub.
Syrpus: is a reed.
Solea, rhombus, and passer plaice: are flat fish.
Colocasia: is an herb of the Nile.
Melanurium: a fish drawing its name from its black tail.
Murena tartesia: from Tartessus, a town of Spain situated once between the mouths of the Baetis, by which name the river itself was also called.
Carpathium pelagus: named from the island of Carpathos, between Rhodes and Crete.
Mustela: a fish generated in Lake Brigantinus in Raetia.
Turdus, merula, varii: are names of fish.
Flutæ: murenae in the Sicilian strait, called plotae by the Greeks.
Crepida: the margin of a broken rock and the extremity of roads. Or, banks that are slightly elevated are called crepidines.
Pelamides: drew their name from mud pelos: which [are] first cordilae young tuna: soon, when they have exceeded a year, they are called tynni tuna.