Note 338 — Chapter IV · CELSUS: MELA: MISCELLANEOUS LEARNING
Reading edition
In Cels., V. xxviii. 16, the mention of a prescription, “as already recommended in case of cattle,” proves the agricultural portion preceded. The opening of the preface to what is now Bk. I. suggests that “Agriculture” immediately preceded, “ut alimenta sanis corporibus agricultura, sic sanitatem aegris medicina promittit.” This is confirmed by headings in many MSS., “Celsi artium liber VI., idem medicinae I.”; cf. Col., I. i., xiv.