Cassianus Bassus

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Cassianus Bassus, called Scholasticus (lawyer) was one of the geoponici or writers on agricultural subjects.

He lived at the end of the 6th or the beginning of the 7th century AD. He compiled from earlier writers a collection of agricultural literature; the principal source was Vindonius Anatolius. Dedicated to his son Bassus, his work was entitled Eklogai peri georgias ("Selections on farming"); the usual Latin version of this title is Eclogae de re rustica.

The original Greek text as written by Cassianus Bassus is lost, but it was afterwards incorporated by an unknown editor in the collection entitled Geoponica, completed about the year 950 and dedicated to the emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. In addition, a Pehlevi translation was made in the 7th century, and two different Arabic translations were made from this in the 8th and 9th centuries.

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• Wilhelm Gemoll in Berliner Studien, i. (1884)
• Oder in Rheinisches Museum, xlv. (1890), xlviii. (1893)
• De Raynal in Annuaire de l'Assoc. pour l'Encouragement des Etudes Grecques, viii. (1874).
• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.