[1571] See end of B. x.
[1573] See end of B. ii.
[1574] Decimus Junius Silanus. He was commissioned by the senate, about B.C. 146, to translate into Latin the twenty-eight books of Mago, the Carthaginian, on Agriculture. See B. xviii. c. [5].
[1575] See end of B. x.
[1576] See end of B. vii.
[1577] See end of B. iii.
[1578] See end of B. iii.
[1579] Julius Græcinus. He was one of the most distinguished orators of his time. Having refused to accuse M. Julius Silanus, he was put to death A.D. 39. He wrote a work, in two books, on the culture of the vine.
[1580] He was a contemporary of Celsus and Columella, the latter of whom states that he wrote a work on a peculiar method of cultivating the vine. See also B. xvii. c. [18].