Category: Classics of Literature
72. The lungs: in what animals they are the largest, and in what the smallest. Animals which have nothing but lungs in the interior of the body. Causes which produce extraordinary swiftness in animals 67
72. The lungs: in what animals they are the largest, and in what the smallest. Animals which have nothing but lungs in the interior of the body. Causes which produce extraordina...
2. BOOK XII.3. BOOK XIII.4. BOOK XIV.5. BOOK XV.6. BOOK XVI.88. Trees planted by Agamemnon the first year of the Trojan war: other trees which date from the time that the place was called Ilium, anterior to the Trojan war 431
7. BOOK XVII.Acetabulum. R 1/8 of a Sextarius, .1238 pint. Actus. R 120 Pedes or Roman feet. Amphora. R 48 Sextarii, 5 gall. 7.577 pints. As. R 2-1/8 farthings. Copper. As. R [weight] See “L...
8. BOOK XI.We shall now proceed to a description of the insects, a subject replete with endless difficulties;[3] for, in fact, there are some authors who have maintained that they do not r...
9. BOOK XII.Such, then, is the history, according to their various species and their peculiar conformations, of all the animals within the compass of our knowledge. It now remains for us to...
10. ill. For these branches of commerce, they have opened the city ofCarræ,[548] which serves as an entrepot, and from which place they were formerly in the habit of proceeding to Gabba, at a distance of twenty days’ journey, and thence to Palæst...
11. BOOK XIII.Thus far we have been speaking of the trees which are valuable for the odours they produce, and each of which is a subject for our wonder in itself. Luxury, however, has thought...
12. BOOK XIV.Those which have been hitherto mentioned, are, nearly all of them, exotic trees, which it is impossible to rear in any other than their native soil, and which are not to be natu...
13. BOOK XV.Theophrastus,[1631] one of the most famous among the Greek writers, who flourished about the year 440 of the City of Rome, has asserted that the olive[1632] does not grow at a d...
14. BOOK XVI.We have given the precedence in this account to the fruit-trees and others which, by their delicious juices, first taught man to give a relish to his food and the various alimen...
15. BOOK XVII.We have described the trees which grow spontaneously on land and in the sea,[2802] and it now remains for us to speak of those which owe their formation, properly speaking, rath...
16. c. 6, contradicts the statement here made by Pliny, but says that it[2401] The Pinus maritima of Linnæus, which produces the greater part of the resins used in France, is found, however, in great abundance in the flat country of the Landes.
17. c. 45, Pliny seems inclined to confound this shrub with the Cyprus, the[2419] The Primus mahaleb, Desfontaines says; but Fée identifies it with the black heath-berry, or whortle-berry, still called “vaciet” in France. It does not, however, grow, as...