Palladius, Rutilius Taurus Aemiliānus
A Latin author of the fourth century A.D., who, by borrowing from the writings of his predecessors and from his own experience, composed a work upon husbandry in fourteen books. Of these the first contains general precepts; books ii.-xiii. give the operations of agriculture in each of the successive months, while the fourteenth treats of the grafting of trees, in eighty-five elegiac couplets. His book, though written in dry and feeble language, was much used in the Middle Ages on account of its practical arrangement. There is a modern edition of bk. i. by Schmitt (Würzburg, 1876), and of bk. xiv. also by Schmitt (Münnerstadt, 1877). Text of the whole in Schneider's Script. Rei Rusticae (Leipzig, 1794-97).