Read the work of Vindanius Anatolius of Berytus,[692] entitled _A
Collection of Agricultural Precepts_, compiled by him from the works
of Democritus Africanus, Tarantinus, Apuleius, Florentius, Valens,
Leo, and Pamphilus, and the _Paradoxa_ of Diophanes.[693] It is in
twelve volumes, and, as our own experience has shown us in many
instances, is useful for the cultivation of the land and agricultural
works, perhaps the most useful of all treatises on the same subject.
However, it contains some marvellous and incredible tales, full of
Greek fables, which the pious husbandman should pass over while
gathering up what is useful in the rest of the work. All other
writers on agricultural matters, so far as I know, express nearly
the same opinions about the same things and differ little from one
another; where they do, the experience of Leo is to be preferred to
all the rest.