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Pliny: Natural History (Books 24-27) PDF

592 Pages·1956·21.607 MB·English
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niir=Jlir^Mr^iir^ir^J|EJ|[:^|L:i||L=U|La|L=U|L=U|L=J|U=J|l=J|U=J|t=JH B CLASSICAL LIBRARY ; Compkte list ofLocb titlcs can he Jound at thc end ofeach vohime PLINY the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (A.D. 23-79), a Roman oi equestrian rank ofTranspadane Gaul (N. ItaK), was iincle of Pliny the letter writer. He pur- sued a career partlvmiiitary in Germany, jiartlv administrative in Gaul and Spain under the emperor Vespasian, became prefect ofthe fleet at Misenum, and died in the eruption ofVesuvius when he went to get a closerview and to rescue friends. Tireless worker, reader, and writer, he was author of works nov, lost, but his S^reat haturaJis Hiswria in 37 books with its vast collection of facts (and alleged facts) survives-a mine ot intormation despite its uncritical character. Book 1 : table of contents of the cjthers and ol authorities; 2 : mathematical and metro- logical survev ot the universe; 3-6: geographv and ethnoaraphv ofthe known world; 7: anthropolojjv and the phvsio- logy of man 8-1 zooloav; 12-19: ; i : botanv, agriculture and horticulture 20-27 plantproductsasusedinmedicine; : 28-32 medical zoologv; 33-37: minerals (and medicine), the hne arts and gem- stones. LIER THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY FOUNDED BY JAME3 LOEB, LL.D. EDITED BY tT. E. PAGE, C.H., LITT.D. tE. CAPPS. PH.D., LL.D. tW. H. D. ROUSE, litt.d. L. A. POST, L.H.D. E. H. WARMINGTON, m.a., f.r.hist.soc. PLINY NATURAL HISTORY VII LIBRI XXIV-XXVII 393 PLINY NATURAL HISTORY WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION IN TEN VOLUMES VOLUME VII LIBRI XXIV-XXVII BT W. H. S. JONES, LiTT.D., F.B.A., IIONORAHY PEIAOW, ST. CATHAK1NE'S LOLLEGE, OAMBRIDQE CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD MCMLXVI FirstpTinted1956 Reprinted1966 PrintedinGreatBritain

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