RUTILIUS

TAURUS AEMILIANUS

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• RUTILIUS TAURUS AEMILIANUS PALLADIUS

PALLADIUS  , a Roman author of the 4th century A.D . He wrote a poem on agriculture (De re rustica) in fourteen books, the material being derived from Columella and other earlier writers . The work is con- veniently arranged, but far inferior in every other respect to that of Columella . There is a modern German edition by Schmitt (Leipzig, 1898) . PALLANZA, a small industrial town and summer and winter resort of the province of Novara, Piedmont, Italy, 659 ft. above sea-level . Pop . (Igor), 4619 (town); 5247 (commune) . It occupies a position of great natural beauty, on a promontory on the W. of Lago Maggiore, with a semicircle of mountains behind and the lake and Borromean Islands in front, 62 m . N. of Novara direct . The annual mean temperature is 550 Fahr.; January, 37.10, July, 74° . There is a fine botanical garden .