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Bassus, Cassianus, surnamed Scholasticus, was in all probability the compiler
of the Geoponica (Geoponika), or work on Agriculture, which is usually ascribed
to the emperor Constantine Porphyrogeneta. (A. D. 911-959.) Cassianus Bassus appears
to have compiled it by the command of this emperor, who has thus obtained the
honour of the work Of Bassus we know nothing, save that he lived at Constantinople,
and was born at Maratonymum, probably a place in Bithynia. (Geopon. v. 6, comp.
v. 36.) The work itself, which is still extant, consists of twenty books, and
is compiled from various authors, whose names are always given, and of whom the
following is an alphabetical list:
-Sex. Julius Africanus ; Anatolicus of Berytus; Appuleius; Aratus of Soli; Aristoteles,
the philosopher; Damogeron; Democritus; Didymus of Alexandria; Cassius Dionysius
of Utica; Diophanes of Nicaea; Florentinus; Fronto; Hierocles, governor of Bithynia
under Diocletian; Hippocrates, of Cos, a veterinary surgeon, at the time of Constantine
the Great ; Leontinus or Leontius ; Nestor, a poet in the time of Alexander Severus;
Pamphilus of Alexandria; Paramus; Pelagonius; Ptolemaeus of Alexandria; the brothers
Quintilius (Gordianus and Maximus); Tarentinus; Theomnestus; Varro; Zoroaster.
Cassianus Bassus has contributed only two short extracts of his own, namely, cc.
5 and 36 of the fifth book.
The various subjects treated of in the Geoponica will best appear
from the contents of the different books, which are as follow: 1. Of the atmosphere
and the rising and setting of the stars. 2. Of general matters appertaining to
agriculture, and of the different kinds of corn. 3. Of the various agricultural
duties suitable to each month. 4 and 5. Of the cultivation of the vine. 6-8. Of
the making of wine. 9. Of the cultivation of the olive and the making of oil.
10-12. Of horticulture. 13. Of the animals and insects injurious to plants. 14.
Of pigeons and other birds. 15. Of natural sympathies and antipathies, and of
the management of bees. 16. Of horses, asses, and camels. 17. Of the breeding
of cattle. 18. Of the breeding of sheep. 19. Of dogs, hares, deer, pigs, and of
salting meat. 20. Of fishes.
The Geoponica was first published at Venice in 1538, 8vo., in a Latin
translation made by Janus Cornarius. The Greek text appeared in the following
year, 1539, 8vo., at Basel, edited by J. Alex. Brassicanus from a manuscript in
the imperial library in Vienna. The next edition was published at Cambridge, 1704,
8vo., edited by Needham, and the last at Leipzig, 1781, 4 vols. 8vo., edited by
Niclas.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Sep 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Bianor, a Bithynian, the author of twenty-one epigrams in the Greek Anthology, lived under the emperors Augustus and Tiberius. His epigrams were included by Philip of Thessalonica in his collection. (Jacobs, xiii.; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. iv.)
Demetrius, (Demetrios), of Bithynia, an epigrammatic poet, the author of two distiches on the cow of Myron, in the Greek Anthology. (Brunck, Anal. ii. 65; Jacobs, ii. 64.) It is not known whether he was the same person as the philosopher Demetrius of Bithynia, son of Diphilus, whom Diogenes Laertius mentions (v. 84). Diogenes (v. 85) also mentions an epic poet named Demetrius, three of whose verses he preserves; and also a Demetrius of Tarsus, a satyric poet, and another Demetrius, an iambic poet, whom he calls pikros aner. The epigrams of Demetrius are very indifferent.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Dionysius. A native of Bithynia, a dialectic or Megaric philosopher, who was the teacher of Theodorus the atheist. (Strab. xii.; Diog. Laert. ii. 98.)
Diphilus, a Stoic, of Bithynia, son of Demetrius, and contemporary with Panaetius. (Ibid. v. 84.)
Hilarius, a native of Bithynia, who in the reign of Valens (A. D. 364--379) migrated to Athens, and distinguished himself as a painter, as well as by his general proficiency in art and philosophy. While residing near Corinth in A. D. 379, Hilarius, with his whole family, perished in an invasion of the Goths. (Eunap. Vit. Soph. p. 67, ed. Boissonade; comp. id. Excerpt. Legat. p. 20.)
Cilo, Junius, procurator of Pontus in the reign of Claudius, brought the Bosporan Mithridates to Rome in A. D. 50, and received after wards the consular insignia. (Tac. Ann. xii. 21.) Dion Cassius speaks (1x. 33) of him as governor of Bithynia, and relates an amusing tale respecting him. The Bithynians came before Claudius to complain of Cilo having taken bribes, but as the emperor could not hear them on account of the noise, he asked those standing by his side what they said. Narcissus thereupon told him that they were returning thanks to Cilo, upon which Claudius appointed him to the government of the pro vince for two years longer.
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