# The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 3 (of 6)

Author: Pliny, the Elder, 24?-79; Bostock, John, 1773-1846 [Translator]; Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1816-1878 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Classics of Literature

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59131

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Natural+History+of+Pliny%2C+Volume+3+%28of+6%29+Pliny&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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

## Chapters

- [BOOK XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-natural-history-of-pliny-volume-3-of-6-59131/chapters/15/index.md)
- [BOOK XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-natural-history-of-pliny-volume-3-of-6-59131/chapters/8/index.md)
- [BOOK XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-natural-history-of-pliny-volume-3-of-6-59131/chapters/14/index.md)
- [BOOK XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-natural-history-of-pliny-volume-3-of-6-59131/chapters/12/index.md)
- [BOOK XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-natural-history-of-pliny-volume-3-of-6-59131/chapters/13/index.md)
- [BOOK XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-natural-history-of-pliny-volume-3-of-6-59131/chapters/11/index.md)
- [c. 45, Pliny seems inclined to confound this shrub with the Cyprus, the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-natural-history-of-pliny-volume-3-of-6-59131/chapters/17/index.md)
- [BOOK XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-natural-history-of-pliny-volume-3-of-6-59131/chapters/9/index.md)
- [ill. For these branches of commerce, they have opened the city of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-natural-history-of-pliny-volume-3-of-6-59131/chapters/10/index.md)
- [BOOK XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-natural-history-of-pliny-volume-3-of-6-59131/chapters/1/index.md)
- [BOOK XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-natural-history-of-pliny-volume-3-of-6-59131/chapters/6/index.md)
- [BOOK XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-natural-history-of-pliny-volume-3-of-6-59131/chapters/7/index.md)
- [c. 6, contradicts the statement here made by Pliny, but says that it](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-natural-history-of-pliny-volume-3-of-6-59131/chapters/16/index.md)
- [BOOK XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-natural-history-of-pliny-volume-3-of-6-59131/chapters/3/index.md)
- [BOOK XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-natural-history-of-pliny-volume-3-of-6-59131/chapters/2/index.md)
- [BOOK XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-natural-history-of-pliny-volume-3-of-6-59131/chapters/5/index.md)
- [BOOK XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-natural-history-of-pliny-volume-3-of-6-59131/chapters/4/index.md)