Editing Columella (section)

{{Short description|1st century AD Roman writer on agriculture}}
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{{Infobox writer <!-- For more information see [[:Template:Infobox Writer/doc]]. --> 
| name          = Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella
| image         = Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella.jpg
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| caption       = Portrait of Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella by [[Jean de Tournes]] (''Insignium aliquot virorum icones'', [[Lyon]], 1559)
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| birth_date    = 4 AD
| birth_place   = [[Cádiz|Gades]], [[Hispania Baetica]]
| death_date    = {{Circa|70 AD}}
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| citizenship   = Roman
| notableworks  = ''De re rustica''
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[[File:Columella.JPG|thumb|250px|Statue of Columella, holding a [[sickle]] and an [[yoke|ox-yoke]], in the Plaza de las Flores, [[Cádiz]]]]
'''Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|k|ɒ|l|j|ə|ˈ|m|ɛ|l|ə}}, [[Arabic]]: {{Transliteration|ar|Yunius}}{{r|glick|p=12}}) was a prominent Roman writer on agriculture in the [[Roman Empire]].{{r|obo}}

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

In 1794 the Spanish botanists [[Ruiz y Pavón|José Antonio Pavón Jiménez and Hipólito Ruiz López]] named a genus of Peruvian [[asterids|asterid]] ''[[Columellia]]'' in his honour.<ref name=mich />

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