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Vindonius Anatolius Berytius (
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: Ανατόλιος ό Βηρύτιος), also known as Anatolius of Berytus, was a Phoenician author of the
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, pseudo-Apuleius, the Quinctilii, Florentinus and Tarentinus. Except for a few fragments, the work of Vindonius is lost. Evidence of its contents includes: * It was the major source of the 6th-century work of Cassianus Bassus' ''Eclogae de re rustica'', which is also lost but was excerpted in the ''
Geoponica The ''Geoponica'' or ''Geoponika'' () is a twenty-book collection of agricultural lore, compiled during the 10th century in Constantinople for the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. The Greek word ''Geoponica'' signifies "agricul ...
'', a surviving 10th-century text. *
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included a notice of Vindonius's work in his ''Bibliotheca'' (codex 163). * A Syriac translation was made in the 6th or 7th century, and
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translations were made from this in the 9th and 10th centuries. * One page of the original work survives in
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MS B.N.Gr. 2313 f. 49v.


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*H. Beckh, "De Geoponicorum codicibus manuscriptis" in ''Acta seminarii philologici Erlangensis'' vol. 4 (1886) pp. 268–70. *E. Fehrle, ''Richtlinien zur Textgestaltung der griechischen Geoponica''. Heidelberg 1920. *John A. C. Greppin, "The Armenians and the Greek Geoponica" in ''Byzantion'' vol. 57 (1987) pp. 46–55. *J. F. Habbi, "Testi geoponici classici in siriaco e in arabo" in ''Autori classici in lingue del vicino e medio oriente'' ed. G. Fiaccadori (Rome, 1990) pp. 77–92. *A.
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, ''Geoponicon in sermonem syriacum versorum quae supersunt''. Leipzig: Teubner, 1860. *E. Oder, "Beiträge zur Geschichte der Landwirthschaft bei den Griechen" in ''Rheinisches Museum'' vol. 45 (1890) pp. 58–98, 202-22, vol. 48 (1893) pp. 1–40. *R. H. Rodgers, "Hail, Frost, and Pests in the Vineyard: Anatolius of Berytus as a Source for the Nabataean Agriculture" in ''Journal of the American Oriental Societies'' vol. 100 (1980) pp. 1–11. *J. L. Teall, "The Byzantine agricultural tradition" in ''Dumbarton Oaks papers'' vol. 25 (1971) pp. 35–59. *


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* R. Rodgers,
Kêpopoiïa: Garden-Making and Garden Culture in the Greek ''Geoponica''
" in ''Byzantine Garden Culture'', ed. A. Littlewood et al. (Washington, 2002), pp. 159–175. {{DEFAULTSORT:Vindonius Anatolius 4th-century Phoenician people Geoponici Writers of lost works People from Berytus