Vindonius Anatolius
Greek author of the 4th century AD
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Vindonius Anatolius Berytius[a] (Greek: Ανατόλιος ό Βηρύτιος), also known as Anatolius of Berytus,[1] was a Phoenician[2] author of the 4th century in Lebanon. He may be identical with the praetorian prefect of Illyricum mentioned by Ammianus Marcellinus.
He was the author of a "collection of agricultural practices" based on numerous earlier authors including Julius Africanus, pseudo-Democritus, pseudo-Apuleius, the Quinctilii, Florentinus[disambiguation needed] 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, a surviving 10th-century text.
- Photius included a notice of Vindonius's work in his Bibliotheca (codex 163).
- A Syriac translation was made in the 6th or 7th century, and Arabic and Armenian translations were made from this in the 9th and 10th centuries.
- One page of the original work survives in Bibliothèque Nationale MS B.N.Gr. 2313 f. 49v.