geoponica

Confirmation that the ancients understood the problem, comes from a 10th-century text Geoponica, based on ancient sources.

Florentinus of the Geoponica reports the process as a proven and obvious fact:

A detailed description of the bugonia process can be found in byzantine Geoponica:

Michael Herren gives a detailed description of bugonia drawn from Geoponica.

Geoponica sive Cassiani Bassi scholastici de re rustica eclogae.

John A. C. Greppin, "The Armenians and the Greek Geoponica" in Byzantion vol.

He wrote an "Abrégé des Géoponiques" (summary of the Geoponica attributed to Cassianus Bassus), Paris, 1812.

The 10th century collection is sometimes (wrongly) ascribed to the 7th century author Cassianus Bassus, whose collection, also titled Geoponica, was integrated into the extant work.

The Geoponica embraces all manner of "agricultural" information, including celestial and terrestrial omina, viticulture, oleoculture, apiculture, veterinary medicine, the construction of fishponds and much more.

From these and similar works, Cassianus Bassus compiled his Geoponica, a source of the later Byzantine Geoponica.

Galen's On complexions; Books 6-8 (on winemaking) of the Geoponica; and homilies on Matthew and John by John Chrysostom.

The Geoponica (also spelled Geoponika) is a twenty-book collection of agricultural lore, compiled during the 10th century in Constantinople for the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus.

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.

The ultimate sources of the Geoponica include Pliny, various lost Hellenistic and Roman-period Greek agriculture and veterinary authors, the Carthaginian agronomist Mago, and even works passing under the name of the Persian prophet Zoroaster.

The original Greek text of Cassianus Bassus has been lost, but some of the contents have survived as part of a collection entitled Geoponica, completed about the year 950 and dedicated to the emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus.