Transcriber’s notes: Italic text is denoted _thus_. See further note at the end of this volume. BOHN’S CLASSICAL LIBRARY. NATURAL HISTORY OF PLINY. VOL. IV. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PLINY. TRANSLATED, WITH COPIOUS NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE LATE JOHN BOSTOCK, M.D., F.R.S., AND H. T. RILEY, ESQ., B.A., LATE SCHOLAR OF CLARE HALL, CAMBRIDGE. VOL. IV. LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. MDCCCLVI. CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME. BOOK XVIII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GRAIN. CHAP. Page 1. Taste of the ancients for agriculture 1 2. When the first wreaths of corn were used at Rome 3 3. The jugerum of land 4 4. How often and on what occasions corn has sold at a remarkably low price 7 5. Illustrious men who have written upon agriculture 9 6. Points to be observed in buying land 11 7. The proper arrangements for a farm-house 13 8. Maxims of the ancients on agriculture 16 9. The different kinds of grain 19 10. The history of the various kinds of grain _ib._ 11. Spelt 24 12. Wheat 25 13. Barley: rice 27 14. Polenta 28 15. Ptisan 29 16. Tragum _ib._ 17. Amylum _ib._ 18. The nature of barley 30 19. Arinca, and other kinds of grain that are grown in the East 31 20. Winter wheat. Similago, or fine flour 32 21. The fruitfulness of Africa in wheat 35 22. Sesame. Erysimum or irio. Horminum 36 23. The mode of grinding corn _ib._ 24. Millet 38 25. Panic _ib._ 26. The various kinds of leaven _ib._ 27. The method of making bread: origin of the art 39 28. When bakers were first introduced at Rome 40 29. Alica 41 30. The leguminous plants: the bean 43 31. Lentils. Pease 46 32. The several kinds of chick-pease _ib._