Writers on Agriculture (Scriptores Rei Rusticae)

Vergiliae: these are stars, which are called by another name, the Pleiades.
Inversed meta-like: this means having a spinning-top shape: the bottom part of which is narrow, while the top is wide. But a meta goal post/conical pillar has a wide bottom part, while it tapers to a point at the top.
Boni consulat: this means "may he judge well" or "take it in good part," as they say.
Acras acradis: a species of wild pear.
Ebulus: an herb that produces berries similar to the elderberry.
Taxus: a tree from which bows are made. It is also said that poisons original: "toxica" exude from it.
There are two kinds of Mandrake: the white, which is considered the male, and the black, which is considered the female. They bear apples the size of hazelnut kernels.
Cicuta: a poisonous herb.
Paliurus: a marsh herb.
Polycletes, Phragmon, and Ageladas: were noble sculptors.
Ithyphallus is properly called an erect male member. The overseers of Bacchus were also called ithyphalli, who used to dance in the orchestra. Priapus is called by this name, ithyphallos in Greek.
Pestum: a town in Campania rich in roses.
Naxius ardor signifies the star of Bacchus's crown. For, as the poets relate, on the island of Dia, which was later called Naxos, Ariadne, having been abandoned by Theseus, entered into marriage with Bacchus, and having been gifted a crown, she was placed among the stars.
Chelas: the arms of the crab, which they seem to make into the sign of the Scales.
Nepa: signifies a scorpion. Others say it is a crab.
They say Crotus was a hunter, and through the prayers of the Muses, he was placed among the stars and is set as Sagittarius.
The other mother of Promethean clay. This alludes to the myth that Prometheus formed man from clay earth.
Riphaei: the northern mountains.
Caurus: a wind that is also called Corus.
Lyra: a celestial sign.
Latrina: is a place for private filth.
Cloaca: however, is that through which public filth is washed away.
Marrae, bidetes, and sarcula: these are rustic tools.
Cornflower Calta: an herb growing in cornfields with a purple flower.
Narcissus: an herb; there are two kinds of it.
Pectita: seems to be a newly coined participle from pecto to comb. Others read percita.
Ora leonis: signifies the lion-herb, which grows on mountains; when its flowers are emitted, they are similar to an open lion's mouth.
Glaucium: a type of wild and erratic herb; some call it niagrum. Others call it paralion. It is born in the spray of the sea or in a salty place, from which it took its name. For glaucus signifies blue-gray, which is the color of the sea.