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Baccheius of Miletus

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Baccheius or Bacchius of Miletus was the author of a work on agriculture in ancient Rome.[1] He was referred to by Pliny the Elder as one of the sources of his Natural History.[2] He lived in or before the 1st century BCE.

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  1. ↑ Marcus Terentius Varro, Res Rusticae 1.1
  2. ↑ Elenchus, lib. viii. x. xiv. xv. xvii. xviii

Image This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Baccheius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 450.