The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 3 (of 6) — John Shaqi
The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 3 (of 6)Pliny, the Elder
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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 3 (of 6)
Pliny, the Elder
Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works
31. The stellio 31
32. The grasshopper: that it has neither mouth nor outlet
for food _ib._
33. The wings of insects 33
34. The beetle. The glow-worm. Other kinds of beetles 33
35. Locusts 35
36. Ants 37
37. The chrysalis 39
38. Animals which breed in wood 40
39. Insects that are parasites of man. Which is the smallest
of animals? Animals found in wax even _ib._
40. An animal which has no passage for the evacuations _ib._
41. Moths, cantharides, gnats—an insect which breeds in the
snow 41
42. An animal found in fire—the pyrallis, or pyrausta 42
43. The animal called hemerobion _ib._
44. The nature and characteristics of all animals considered
limb by limb. Those which have tufts and crests 43
45. The various kinds of horns. Animals in which they are
moveable 44
46. The heads of animals. Those which have none 46
47. The hair _ib._
48. The bones of the head 47
49. The brain _ib._
50. The ears. Animals which hear without ears or apertures 48
51. The face, the forehead, and the eye-brows 49
52. The eyes—animals which have no eyes, or have only one
eye _ib._
53. The diversity of the colour of the eyes 50
54. The theory of sight—persons who can see by night _ib._
55. The nature of the pupil—eyes which do not shut 52
56. The hair of the eye-lids; what animals are without them.
Animals which can see on one side only 54
57. Animals which have no eye-lids 55
58. The cheeks _ib._
59. The nostrils _ib._
60. The mouth; the lips; the chin; and the jaw-bone 56
61. The teeth; the various kinds of teeth; in what animals
they are not on both sides of the mouth: animals which
have hollow teeth _ib._
62. The teeth of serpents; their poison. A bird which has
teeth 57
63. Wonderful circumstances connected with the teeth 59
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