Columella: On Agriculture, Vol. I (Loeb)

followed by the Bruschian edition, published at Reggio in 1482. The edition of the Veronese architect Iucundus came from the press of Aldus Manutius at Venice in 1514. This, the first Aldine edition, showed a wider acquaintance with the manuscripts and restored the twelve books of Res Rustica to their proper numerical order. A second Aldine edition, of no additional importance, appeared in 1533. The most noteworthy annotated editions of the complete works are found in the Scriptores Rei Rusticae Veteres Latini (Ancient Latin Writers on Agriculture) of J. M. Gesner, printed at Leipzig in 1735, reprinted by Ernesti in 1773 with the readings of the Sangermanensis manuscript, and in the Scriptores Rei Rusticae Veteres Latini of J. G. Schneider, which appeared at Leipzig during the years 1794–1796. Schneider's edition takes account of all earlier works and is still the most valuable complete edition that we possess. No modern critical edition of the entire work of Columella has been produced, although the eminent Swedish scholar Vilhelm Lundström has made a notable start in that direction with the publication of seven of the thirteen books.¹ The poem on gardening (Book X) has been included in a few annotated editions of Poetae Latini Minores (Minor Latin Poets), of which Wernsdorf's (1794)—reproduced with few changes in Lemaire's recension (Bibliotheca Classica Latina, Vol. VII, Paris, 1826)—is the best. In more recent times, the tenth book, with text and critical apparatus only, has been edited separately by

¹ V. Lundström, L. Iuni Moderati Columellae opera quae exstant (The Extant Works of Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella): fasc. 1 (De Arboribus), Upsala, 1897; fasc. 6 (Bk. X), Upsala, 1902; fasc. 7 (Bk. XI), Upsala, 1906; fasc. 2 (Bks. I–II), Göteborg, 1917; fasc. 4 (Bks. VI–VII), Göteborg, 1940.