Columella

Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella
Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella
	Portrait of Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella by Jean de Tournes (Insignium aliquot virorum icones, Lyon, 1559)
Born	4 AD; Gades, Hispania Baetica
Died	c. 70 AD
Citizenship	Roman
Notable works	De re rustica

Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella (/ˌkɒljəˈmɛlə/, Arabic: Yunius^[1]^: 12) was a prominent Roman writer on agriculture in the Roman Empire.^[2]

His De re rustica in twelve volumes has been completely preserved and forms an important source on Roman agriculture, together with the works of Cato the Elder and Marcus Terentius Varro, both of which he occasionally cites. A smaller book on trees, De arboribus, is usually attributed to him.

In 1794 the Spanish botanists José Antonio Pavón Jiménez and Hipólito Ruiz López named a genus of Peruvian asterid Columellia in his honour.^[3]

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Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella
Portrait of Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella by Jean de Tournes (Insignium aliquot virorum icones, Lyon, 1559)
Born	4 AD Gades, Hispania Baetica
Died	c. 70 AD
Citizenship	Roman
Notable works	De re rustica

Columella

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