Cassius Dionysius

Cassius Dionysius (flourished 88 bc, Utica [now in Tunisia]) was an ancient North African writer on botany and medicinal substances, best known for his Greek translation of the great 28-volume treatise on agriculture by the Carthaginian Mago (Columella, called Mago; sometimes described as the father of agriculture). The work was highly esteemed and widely used by the Romans in a Latin translation prepared after the destruction of Carthage in 146 bc. Cassius reduced the work...