Writers on Agriculture (Scriptores Rei Rusticae)

Sabellico: up to the point of admiration, the leaves are curled.
Turni lacus: a place out of the Arician valley where the lake of Turnus once was; from there, they followed the lake-dwelling cabbages.
Tibur: a city not far from the City, once fertile in fruits.
Brutii: these are the furthest inhabitants of Italy toward Sicily.
Mater aritia porritex: it was the Aritian leek, which was headed, and a type of cabbage not very tall, but more numerous in leaves and also thinner.
Resoluit nexus: that is, she gave birth and brought forth.
Portitor Helles: the ram which is carried into the heaven.
Capitis porri: that is, of the headed leek.
Sampsucus: an herb which they now call marjoram, and by another name, it is called amaracus.
Staphilinus: is the wild or rustic parsnip.
Eacii flores: the hyacinth, which they say was born from the blood of Eacus.
Corambla: is an herb which blunts the eyes and makes them dull. And for this reason, it is called corambla. For kore signifies the pupil, but ambly signifies blunted and dull.
There are also many types of lettuce, that is: the Sicilian, Cappadocian, Tartessian, and Paphian or Cyprian. There is also the sessile lettuce.
"The one which the Tartessian shore of Gades produces." He calls his lettuce Tartessian, since the family of Columella was born from the municipality of Gades.
Ferali mense lupercus: that is, the month of February, in which the Feralia sacrifices were made to the dead and the Lupercal games were held.
Kalendae Veneris: the Kalends of April. For April draws its name from Venus.
Amphitrite: was the wife of Neptune. Tethys, however, of the old Oceanus.
Amores acrisioneos: that is, of the daughter of Acrisius, Danae, whom Jupiter possessed after being converted into a golden rain.
Dindymus: a mountain of Phrygia sacred to Cybele, which goddess drove her priests into furies.
Citheron: a ridge of Parnassus, where there was the city of Nysa dedicated to Bacchus.
We say that "Euie" is to be read, even if they read "euchie" with an interpolated aspiration. For it is born from euoi euan, which is the cry of the Bacchants.
Paean: a praise to Apollo for victory or for averting a plague.
Satureia, thymus, and tymbra: these are herbs.
Iacchus: Bacchus, from the roaring.
Corymbus: is the fruit of the ivy.
Haron: in Egypt, they call a type of bulb next to the squill in size.
Melanthium in Greek; in Latin, it is called git. By another name, melanspermon, that is, black seed. Others call it nigella.
They call the wild mallow ibiscos. Some others say malachen, that is, mallow.