Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius

The Opus agriculturae is a treatise on farming in 14 parts or books, written in the late fourth or early fifth century AD.

Books 2 to 13 give detailed instructions for the typical activities on a Roman farm for each month of the year, starting with January.

The fourteenth book, De Veterinaria Medicina, was rediscovered only in the 20th century, and gives instructions for the care of animals and elements of veterinary science.

[4] All of this is in prose, but Palladius also appended a poem, De Insitione, On Grafting, consisting of eighty-five couplets of elegiac verse.

A translation into Middle English verse survives from about 1420, entitled On Husbondrie;[7] it can be seen as part of a genre of instructional agricultural writing that was to develop in England into works such as those of Thomas Tusser and Gervase Markham.

The sixteen overshot wheels at Barbegal are considered the largest ancient mill complex. Their capacity was sufficient to feed the whole nearby city of Arles