named). He expresses personal views and practices desultorily (e.g. 1.28.5, 2.9.1, 4.10.24).
His is not the world of large (and absentee) landowners; agricultural slaves are mentioned
but once (1.6.18). That “some fragment of column” will serve for rolling the threshing floor
(7.1) implies agricultural recession. Lists of necessities to be kept ready (e.g. 1.42 imple-
ments, 14.3 medicinal plants) combine with straightforward organization to appeal to an
audience of free tenants. He provides novel uses of wood: vine props made of winter oak
(aesculus) and exposed structures made of Spanish chestnut (castanea): 12.15.2.
Language and style are characteristic of late Antiquity. There is an explicit aversion
to rhetorical embellishment (1.1.1), belied to some extent by conscious application of
both quantitative and accentual prose rhythms. Palladius’ work was recommended by
C (Inst. 1.28.6) and used by I (e.g. Etym. 17.10.8). Books 1–13 were
transmitted as a unit and circulated widely from the 9th c. onward, eclipsing all similar
works in the Latin Middle Ages. The Carmen de insitione was known to 15th c. readers, but
Book 14 re-emerged only in the 20th c.
Ed.: Robert H. Rodgers (1975); concordance: J.F. Núñez (2003).
J. Svennung, “De auctoribus Palladii,” Eranos 25 (1927) 123–178, 230–248; Idem, Untersuchungen zu
Palladius (1935); PLRE 1 (1971) 23–24; F. Morgenstern, “Die Auswertung des opus agriculturae des
Palladius.. .,” Klio 71 (1989) 179–192; D. Vera, “Dalla ‘villa perfecta’ alla villa di Palladio,” Athenaeum
83 (1995) 189–211, 331–356; OCD3 1101, M.S. Spurr; BNP 10 (2007) 393–394, K. Ruffing.
Robert H. Rodgers
Aemilius Hispanus (ca 100 BCE – ca 350 CE)
Cited by P S for a remedy for arthritic glanders (Pel. 23 = Hip-
piatrica Parisina 57 = Hippiatrica Berolinensia 4.14) and described as a mango or horse-dealer.
Fischer (1980) 23; Adams (1995).
Anne McCabe
Aemilius Macer of Verona (d. 16 BCE)
Wrote didactic poems. The scholia Bernensia ad VERGILIUS Ecl. 5.1 claim he was Vergilii aman-
tissimus, and that Vergil disguised him as Mopsus and himself as Menalcas. Macer read his
poems to O, his younger contemporary (Trist. 4.10.43–44). He died in Asia. Two titles
and only fragments thereof survive: The Generation of Birds (Ornithogonia), in two or more
books, frr. 1 – 6, and The ̄riaka, in two books, frr. 7 – 11. Scholars assume the existence of another
poem, to which Ovid (above) legit... quae iuuat herba seems to allude, as does M
(2.44). Fragments 12–14 probably belonged to the latter work, whose title was perhaps
Alexipharmaka (alternatively, this poem on herbal remedies might simply have been The ̄riaka
2). The Generation of Birds was based on Boios’ poem with the same title, whereas The ̄riaka
followed N. L seems to have drawn on Macer in his excursus on Lybian
snakes (9.700–947); a scholion to Lucanus 9.701, in fact, cites Macer as a possible source.
W. Morel, “Iologica,” Philologus 83 (1928) 345–389; R. Rau, “Ein Jugendwerk Ovids,” PhW 52 (1932)
895 – 896; A.S. Hollis, “Aemilius Macer, Alexipharmaca?” CR 87 (1973) 11; H. Dahlmann, Über
Aemilius Macer (1981); F. Brena, “Nota a Macro, fr. 17 Büchn.,” Maia 44 (1992) 171–172; FLP
292 – 299 and 520; Blänsdorf (1995) 271–278; Jacques (2002) , n. 253.
Claudio De Stefani
AEMILIUS HISPANUS