Latin authors who wrote of cattle

CATO (Marcus Porcius Cato Censor) (234 BCE - 149 BCE)
De Agri Cultura

CASSIUS DIONYSIUS (II C. BCE)
De Agricultura

VARRO (Marcus Terentius Varro) (116 BCE -27 BCE)
Rerum Rusticarum De Agri Cultura

CAESAR (Gaius Iulius Caesar) (100 - 44 BCE)
De Bello Gallico - Book VI

LUCRETIUS (Titus Lucretius Caro) (98 BCE -55 BCE)
De Rerum Natura - Book II

VIRGIL (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70 BCE -19 BCE)
Georgicon - Books II and III / Bucolicon - Eclogue III

PLINY THE ELDER (Gaius Plinius Secundus) (23 - 79 CE)
Naturalis Historia - Book VIII

COLUMELLA (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) (I C. CE)
De Re Rustica - Book VI

TACITUS (Publius Cornelius Tacitus) (56-117 CE)
Annales - Book IV Germania

PALLADIUS (Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus) (4th century CE)
Opus Agriculturae or De Re Rustica
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