Palladius
arranged most of his agricultural writings in calendar
form. He frequently quoted Columella. He gave a
more complete description of vegetables, fruits and field
crops than Columella. His work De Re Rustica is
a poem consisting of 14 books.
(Status of Writing of Aristotle and Theophrastus Treatises
of the great writers of natural history, Aristotle and
Theophrastus, were not current until after the 11th
and 12th Centuries. At this time translations into Latin
from the Greek and retranslations from Arabic began
to appear. Even then Theophrastus was neglected in favor
of Dioscorides although Aristotle began to have considerable
influence. His Historia Animalium although translated
early into Arabic and current throughout the East was
long untranslated in the West.)
