Vindonius Anatolius says also of Beirut was a Greek scholar of IVe century. It was probably Préteur of the Roman province of Illyrie and friend of Libanios.
It is especially famous to be the author of an encyclopedic treaty of twelve volumes in the field of agriculture ( Συναγωγή γεωργικών έπιτηδευμάτων /Meeting ( Synagog ) of husbandries). This famous treaty at its time is lost nowadays but it was the independent source, by the means of Cassianus Bassus, of Byzantine compilation Geoponica written six centuries later. The Roman agronomist Palladius also abundantly used it in his own work. By their intermediary, the work of Vindonius Anatolius was considered until the beginnings of modern agronomy Western. In VIIe S. there was a translation Syriaque, in Arab VIIIe in and Armenian Xe in . It was thus also a source for the medieval Arab agronomists such Ibn Al-Awwam.
According to Photios, to write its treaty Vindonius Anatolius took as a starting point authors of which we know for the majority only very few things: Pseudo-Démocrite, Diophane de Nicée, Julius Africanus, Apuleius, Florentinus, Tarentinus, Leo, Pamphilus, Valens. Their work we as well as possible know only some fragments or quotations. We know that it also took as a starting point Latin authors such Pline Old the and the Quintilii.
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