By Pliny, H. Rackham
Pliny the Elder, tireless researcher and author, is writer of the encyclopedic typical heritage, in 37 books, an unequalled compendium of Roman wisdom. The contents of the books are as follows. publication 1: desk of contents of the others and of experts; 2: mathematical and metrological survey of the universe; 3-6: geography and ethnography of the identified global; 7: anthropology and the body structure of guy; 8-11: zoology; 12-19: botany, agriculture, and horticulture; 20-27: plant items as utilized in medication; 28-32: clinical zoology; 33-37: minerals (and medicine), the wonderful arts, and gem stones. The Loeb Classical Library version of ordinary historical past is in ten volumes.
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PREFACE, 27-30 completion Made hy so-and-so (these I will bring this made the artist appear in at their proper places) to have assumed a supreme confidence in his art, and consequently all these works were very unpopular. For my o^vn part I frankly confess that my works would admit of a great deal of amplification, and not only those now in question but also all my pubUcations, so that in passing I may insure myself against your Scourges of Homer (that would be the more correct term), as I am informed that both the Stoics and the Academy, and also the Epicureans, as for the philologists, I always expected it from them are in travail with a reply to my publications on Philology, and for the last ten years have been having a series of miscarriages for not even elephants But take so long to bring their ofFspring to birth as if I didn't know that Theophrastus, a mortal whose eminence as an orator won him the title of the divine,' actually had a book written against him by a woman which was the origin of the proverb about choosing your tree to hang from I am unable to refrain from quoting the actual words of Cato the Censor applying to this, to show that even the treatise on miUtary discipUne of Cato, who had learnt his soldiering under Africanus, or rather under him and Hannibal as well, and had been unable to endure even Africanus, who when commander-inchief had won a triumph, found critics ready for it of the sort that try to get glory for themselves by running down another man's knowledge.
Cxiii) Harmonica mundi ratio. ) recedant. : : ; : CCCCXVII. Ex auctoribus M. Varrone, Sulpicio Gallo, Tito Caesare imperatore, Q. Tuberone, Tulho Tirone, L. Pisone, T. Livio, Comeho Nepote, Seboso, Caelio Antipatro, Fabiano, Antiate, Muciano, Caecina qui de Etrusca disciphna, Tarquitio qui item, lulio Aquila qui item, Sergio Paullo. ocrito, Critodemo, Thrasyllo, Serapione gnomonico, Euchde, Coerano philosopho, Dicaearcho, Archimede, Onesicrito, Eratosthene, Pythea, Herodoto, Aristotele, Ctesia, Artemidoro Ephesio, Isidoro Characeno, Theopompo.
Diodorua Siculus in the time of Augustus, wrote a luiiversal history, part of which is stiil extaat. " But when you get them, good heavens, what a void you will find between the covers Our authors being more serious use the titles Antiquities, Instances and Systems, the wittiest, Talks by Lamplight, I suppose because the author was a toper indeed Tippler was his name. inside ! — Varro makes a rather smaller claim in his Satires A Ulysses-and-a-half and Folding-tablet. Diodorus among the Greeks stopped playing with words and gave his history the title of Library.