The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6)Pliny, the Elder
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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6)
Pliny, the Elder
Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works
FOREIGN AUTHORS QUOTED.—King Juba[4377], Hecatæus[4378],
Hellanicus[4379], Damastes[4380], Dicæarchus[4381], Bæton[4382],
Timosthenes[4383], Philonides[4384], Zenagoras[4385], Astynomus[4386],
Staphylus[4387], Aristoteles[4388], Aristocritus[4389],
Dionysius[4390], Ephorus[4391], Eratosthenes[4392], Hipparchus[4393],
Panætius[4394], Serapion[4395] of Antioch, Callimachus[4396],
Agathocles[4397], Polybius[4398], Timæus[4399] the mathematician,
Herodotus[4400], Myrsilus[4401], Alexander Polyhistor[4402],
Metrodorus[4403], Posidonius[4404], who wrote the Periplus and the
Periegesis, Sotades[4405], Periander[4406], Aristarchus[4407]
of Sicyon, Eudoxus[4408], Antigenes[4409], Callicrates[4410],
Xenophon[4411] of Lampsacus, Diodorus[4412] of Syracuse, Hanno[4413],
Himilco[4414], Nymphodorus[4415], Calliphanes[4416], Artemidorus[4417],
Megasthenes[4418], Isidorus[4419], Cleobulus[4420], and
Aristocreon[4421].
END OF VOL. I.
APPENDIX OF CORRECTIONS.
Page 1, line 9, The allusion, otherwise obscure, is to the fact that
some friends of Catullus had filched a set of
table-napkins, which had been given to him by
Veranius and Fabius, and substituted others
in their place.
„ 13, „ 2, _for_ Roman figures, _read_ other figures.
„ 20, „ 7, _for_ the God of nature; he also tends, _down to_
and most excellent, _read_ the God of nature. He
supplies light to the universe, and dispels all
darkness; He both conceals and reveals the other
stars. It is He that regulates the seasons, and,
in the course of nature, governs the year as it
ever springs anew into birth; it is He that dispels
the gloom of the heavens, and sheds his light upon
the clouds of the human mind. He, too, lends his
brightness to the other stars. He is most brilliant
and most excellent.
„ 21, „ 13, _for_ elected, _read_ erected.
„ 21, „ 13, _for_ good fortune, _read_ evil fortune.
„ 23, „ 18, _for_ our scepticism concerning God is still
increased, _read_ our conjectures concerning God
become more vague still.
„ 23, „ 31, _for_ and the existence of God becomes doubtful,
_read_ whereby the very existence of a God is shewn
to be uncertain.
„ 33, „ 4, _for_ as she receives, _read_ as receives.
„ 54, „ 15, _for_ the seventh of the circumference, _read_ the
seventh of the third of the circumference.
„ 59, „ 36, _for_ transeuntia, _read_ transcurrentia.
„ 67, „ 26, _for_ circumstances, _read_ influences.
„ 78, „ 9, _for_ higher winds, _read_ higher waves.
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