Category: History - Ancient
This treatise on Natural History, a novel work in Roman literature, which I have just completed, I have taken the liberty to dedicate to you, most gracious[35] Emperor, an appellation peculiarly suitable to you, while, on account of his age, that of _great_ is more appropriate...
This treatise on Natural History, a novel work in Roman literature, which I have just completed, I have taken the liberty to dedicate to you, most gracious[35] Emperor, an appel...
7. BOOK II.[I have adopted the division of the chapters from Hardouin, as given in the editions of Valpy, Lemaire, Ajasson, and Sillig; the Roman figures, enclosed between brackets, are th...
8. BOOK III.Thus far have I treated of the position and the wonders of the earth, of the waters, the stars, and the proportion of the universe and its dimensions. I shall now proceed to des...
9. BOOK IV.The third great Gulf of Europe begins at the mountains of Acroceraunia[2083], and ends at the Hellespont, embracing an extent of 2500 miles, exclusive of the sea-line of ninetee...
10. BOOK V.The Greeks have given the name of Libya[3232] to Africa, and have called the sea that lies in front of it the Libyan Sea. It has Egypt for its boundary, and no part of the earth...
11. vi. 444; and the language has been transferred to the moderns, as in[168] Astronomers describe two different revolutions or periods of the moon; the synodical and the sidereal. The synodical marks the time in which the moon passes from one conju...
12. ii. 7 and 8; also by Seneca in various parts of the 6th book of his[540] Poinsinet enters into a long detail of some of the most remarkable earthquakes that have occurred, from the age of Pliny to the period when he wrote, about fifty years ago...
13. i. 412, 413: it is probable, however, that the same name was applied to[572] Hiera, Automata; ab ἱερὰ, sacer, et αὐτομάτη, sponte nascens. Respecting the origin of these islands there would appear to be some confusion in the dates, which it is diff...
14. xv. 313, 314; Seneca quotes these lines when treating on this subject,[653] Aristotle, Strabo, and Silius Italicus, viii. 582, 583, refer to this property of the Silarus; but, according to Brotier, it does not appear to be known to the present inh...
15. c. 13, informs us that this colony was founded in the year of the city[1222] Two localities have been mentioned as the site of Graviscæ, at both of which there are ancient remains: one on the right bank of the Marta, about a mile from its mouth, a...
16. i. 97-100), makes it his last halting-place, and ridicules a pretendedmiracle shown by the inhabitants, who asserted that incense placed on a certain altar was consumed without fire being applied. The same story is referred to by Pliny, B. ii. c....
17. c. 6, as famous for the goodness of its wines, a reputation whichit still maintains. The name of Claterna, once a municipal town of importance, is still retained in part by a small stream which crosses the road nine miles from Bologna, and is...
18. c. 108, 109, of his History, Herodotus gives a very particular account[2860] The Agathyrsi are placed by Herodotus near the upper course of the river Maris, in the S.E. of Dacia or the modern Transylvania. Pliny however seems here to assign them a...
19. c. 18, can be the same place: but there is little doubt, from the words[3463] Now called Zerbi and Jerba, derived from the name of Girba, which even in the time of Aurelius Victor, had supplanted that of Meninx. It is situate in the Gulf of Cabes....
20. c. 13, where he says that this inland sea commences to be called the_Caspian_ after you have passed the river Cyrus (or Kúr), and that the Caspii live near it; and in C. 16, that it is called the _Hyrcanian_ Sea, from the Hyrcani who live along...
21. c. 11) gives precisely the same representation, with the additionalerror of making the Ceraunii (_i. e._ the Caucasus of others) part of the Great Taurus Chain. He seems to apply the name of Caucasus to the spurs which spread out both to the no...