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The ascription to Africanus of an encyclopaedic work entitled Kestoi ( Κέστος " embroidered "), treating of agriculture, natural history, military science, etc., has been disputed on account of its secular and often credulous character.
August Neander suggested that it was written by Africanus before he had devoted himself to religious subjects.
A fragment of the Kestoi was found in the Oxyrhynchus papyri.
According to the New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, the Kestoi " appears to have been intended as a sort of encyclopedia of the material sciences with the cognate mathematical and technical branches, but to have contained a large proportion of merely curious, trifling, or miraculous matters, on which account the authorship of Julius has been questioned.
Among the parts published are sections on agriculture, liturgiology, tactics, and medicine ( including veterinary practise ).

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