geoponics

Updated: May 20, 2025

Yet the royal authors of the Geoponics were more seriously employed in expounding the precepts of the destroying art, which had been taught since the days of Xenophon, as the art of heroes and kings. But the Tactics of Leo and Constantine are mingled with the baser alloy of the age in which they lived.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5

The art of agriculture had amused the leisure, and exercised the pens, of the best and wisest of the ancients; and their chosen precepts are comprised in the twenty books of the Geoponics of Constantine.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5