Vindonius Anatolius

Vindonius Anatolius Berytius (Greek: Ανατόλιος ό Βηρύτιος), also known as Anatolius of Berytus, was a Phoenician author of the 4th century in Lebanon. He may be identical with the praetorian prefect of Illyricum mentioned by Ammianus Marcellinus.

He was the author of a "collection of agricultural practices" based on numerous earlier authors including Julius Africanus, pseudo-Democritus, pseudo-Apuleius, the Quinctilii, Florentinus and Tarentinus. Except for a few fragments, the work of Vindonius is lost. Evidence of its contents includes:


 * 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.
 * Photius included a notice of Vindonius's work in his Bibliotheca (codex 163).
 * A Syriac translation was made in the 6th or 7th century, and Arabic and Armenian translations were made from this in the 9th and 10th centuries.
 * One page of the original work survives in Bibliothèque Nationale MS B.N.Gr. 2313 f. 49v.