Natural History (1491) - Page 23


Notable features of vineyard cultivation	Ch. 5.
On the nature of wine	Ch. 6.
Noble wines	Ch. 7.
Overseas wines	Ch. 8.
On the wine that is called bion life-wine, seven kinds	Ch. 9.
On the kinds of sweet wines, fourteen	Ch. 10.
On the deuteriis second-class and secondary kinds of wine, three	Ch. 11.
Which noble wines have recently begun to be in Italy	Ch. 12.
On the observation of wine established by King Romulus	Ch. 13.
What was the use of wine among the ancients and on the wines of the ancients	Ch. 14.
On wine cellars and on Opimian wine	Ch. 15.
On the liberality of Caesar regarding wine and how the kinds of artificial wine first arose	Ch. 16.
On artificial wines	Ch. 17.
On honey-wine and oxymel	Ch. 18.
Miraculous kinds of wine	Ch. 19.
Which wines it is not lawful to use for sacred rites and with what [substances] must is seasoned	Ch. 20.
On the kinds of pitch and resins, seasoned musts, vinegar, and dregs	Ch. 21.
On wine cellars	Ch. 22.
On avoiding drunkenness	Ch. 23.
Total items, histories, and observations: 510.

FROM THE AUTHORS.

Cornelius Valerianus, Virgil, Celsus, Cato the Censor, Saserna father and son, Scropha, M. Varro, D. Syllanus, Fabius Pictor, Trogus, Hyginus, Flaccus, Verrius, Graecinus, Julius Attius, Columella, Massurius, Sabinus, Fenestella, Tergilla, Mactius Plancus, Flavius Dorsinus, Scaevola, Aelius, Ateius Capito, Cotta Messalinus, L. Piso, Pompeius, Lenaeus, Fabianus, Sextus Niger, Bibius Ruffus.

FROM FOREIGNERS.

Hesiod, Theophrastus, Aristotle, Democritus, King Attalus, King Philometor, Archytas, Xenophon, Amphilochus, Athenaeus, Anaxipolis of Thasos, Apollodorus of Lemnos, Aristophanes of Miletus, Antigonus of Cyrene, Agatho, Apollonius of Pergamum, Aristander of Athens, Botrietes. Also Bacchius, Bion of Miletus, Solensis, Chaereas of Athens, Cheristus. Also Diodorus of Priene, Dion of Colophon, Epigenes of Rhodes, Euagoras of Thasos, Euphron of Athens, Androtion who wrote on agriculture, Aeschyrion who also wrote, Lysimachus who also wrote, Dionysius who translated Mago, Diophanes who made an epitome from Dionysius, Asclepiades the physician, Onesicritus, Erasistratus who also wrote, King Juba.

BOOK FIFTEEN contains matters concerning the nature and cultivation of fruit-bearing trees.


The nature of fruit-bearing trees	Ch. 1.
On oil	Ch. 2.
On the nature of the olive and the budding olive trees	Ch. 3.
On the nature of oil	Ch. 4.
On the cultivation of olives	Ch. 5.
On preserving olives and how oil is to be made	Ch. 6.
On artificial oil	Ch. 7.
On olive lees	Ch. 8.
The kinds and natures of all fruits	Ch. 9.
The four kinds of pine nuts	Ch. 10.
On the quince	Ch. 11.
On the peach, four kinds	Ch. 12.
On the plum, eleven kinds	Ch. 13.
On diverse kinds of apples, twenty-nine kinds	Ch. 14.
On pears and the variety of grafts	Ch. 15.
On preserving fruits and grapes	Ch. 16.
On quinces, pears, and service-berries	Ch. 17.
On figs, twenty-nine kinds	Ch. 18.
On the wild fig and caprification	Ch. 19.
On medlars and their four kinds	Ch. 20.
On service-berries, four kinds	Ch. 21.
On the walnut	Ch. 22.
On chestnuts, eight kinds	Ch. 23.
On carobs, fleshy fruits, mulberries, grapes, and berries	Ch. 24.
On cherries, eight kinds	Ch. 25.
On the cornel and the mastic tree	Ch. 26.
On the kinds of juices and on odor	Ch. 27.
On the juices of fruits and trees, colors, odors, the nature of fruits, and the recommendation of fruits	Ch. 28.
On the myrtle and its kinds	Ch. 29.
On the laurel, thirteen kinds	Ch. 30.
Total items, histories, and observations: 520.

FROM THE AUTHORS.

Fenestella, Fabianus, Virgil, Cornelius Valerianus, Celsus, Cato the Censor, Saserna father and son, Scropha, M. Varro, Lysimachus, Fabius Pictor, Trogus, Hyginus, Flaccus, Verrius, Graecinus Atticus, Julius Sabinus, Tergilla, Cotta, Messalinus, Columella, L. Piso, Pompeius, Lenaeus, Mactius Plancus, Flavius Dorsenus, Scaevola, Aelius, Ateius, Capito, Sextus Niger, Mumius Ruffus.

FROM FOREIGNERS.

Hesiod, Aristotle, Democritus, King Hiero, Archytas, King Philometor, King Attalus.