Lectures on Roman husbandry : delivered before the University of Oxford; comprehending such an account of the system of agriculture, the treatment of domestic animals, the horticulture &c., pursued in ancient times, as may be collected from the Scriptores rei rusticae, the Georgics of Virgil, and other classical authorities, with notices of the plants mentioned in Columella and Virgil / by Charles Daubeny.

  • Daubeny, Charles, 1795-1867.
Date:
1857
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Lectures on Roman husbandry : delivered before the University of Oxford; comprehending such an account of the system of agriculture, the treatment of domestic animals, the horticulture &c., pursued in ancient times, as may be collected from the Scriptores rei rusticae, the Georgics of Virgil, and other classical authorities, with notices of the plants mentioned in Columella and Virgil / by Charles Daubeny. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

    12/378
    Nevertheless, in spite of these recommendations, experience has shewn that there was something unattractive in his mode of handling the subject, arising in a great degree from a want of due con- densation; for the work in question has never reached a second edition, and is chiefly kept to be appealed to in cases of difficulty or doubt, rather than to be taken up as an agreeable com- panion to occupy a vacant hour. And yet the subject which he discusses is by no means devoid of interest, presenting to us, as it does, not merely the results of the sagacity, and practical experience of the Romans with reference to the most important of the practical arts of life, but also glimpses of the manners, sentiments, and social condition, of the most powerful and civilised people of the ancient world. Accordingly, the Lectures now offered to the Public have, on several occasions, attracted in the University a greater number of Auditors, than could be calculated upon, in the case of any not belonging to those classes of subjects, out of which the Undergraduates are compell- ed to make their selection, ;is a preliminary to