The Natural History (Latin: Naturalis Historia) is a Latin work by Pliny the Elder. The largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire to the...
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Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 – AD 79), called Pliny the Elder (/ˈplɪni/), was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of...
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(Pliny's Natural History) Pliny the Younger (died 113), ancient Roman statesman, orator, writer, and Pliny the Elder's nephew and adopted son Pliny Chase...
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Pliny the Elder. "xxxi.46.(10.)—The Various Kinds of Nitrum". The Natural History. Pliny the Elder. "xxxii.26.—Remedies for Tooth-ache". The Natural History...
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century AD, including Lucretius, Seneca and Pliny the Elder, wrote treatises that dealt with the rules of the natural world in varying degrees of depth. Many...
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Robert Lowell History of Armenia of Moses of Chorene Natural History (Pliny) (Naturalis Historiae) of Pliny the Elder History (band), or HISTORY, South Korean...
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Indica (Megasthenes) (category History books about India)
earliest of these works are those by Diodorus Siculus, Strabo (Geographica), Pliny, and Arrian (Indica). Megasthenes' Indica can be reconstructed using the...
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History may also refer to: Natural History (Pliny), Naturalis Historia, a 1st-century work by Pliny the Elder Natural History, a 16th-century work by Adam...
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Citron (section Pliny the Elder)
(1855). The Natural History. Pliny the Elder. London: Taylor and Francis. "Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, Book XII. The Natural History of Trees,...
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Panotti (section Pliny the Elder)
77–79, the classical writer Pliny the Elder published his thirty-seven volumes of encyclopedic works known as the Natural History containing entries of both...
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translated as 'Worship of Wisdom/Mazda' in English. The encyclopedia Natural History (Pliny) claims that Zoroastrians later educated the Greeks who, starting...
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Natural History Museum, Mission Statement Archived 2014-12-27 at the Wayback Machine An Accepted Way of Viewing Art Pliny the Elder (2004). Natural History:...
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Museum, Los Angeles. pp 24-25 CHAP. 42.—PUMICE; NINE REMEDIES. The Natural History. Pliny the Elder. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London...
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I Pliny the Elder, however, refers to a Fabius Dossennus as the author of "Acharistio," one of the Atellanae Fabulae, in his Natural History. Pliny writes:...
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Elder, Pliny. "Chapter 2. Aconite, Otherwise Called Thelyphonon, Cammaron, Pardalianches, or Scorpio; Four Remedies.". The Natural History of Pliny, Book...
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(Herakleotikon hamma) and is still used extensively in medicine. In his Natural History, Pliny relates the belief that wounds heal more quickly when bound with...
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Garlic (section Culinary history)
rural classes (Virgil, Eclogues ii. 11), and, according to Pliny the Elder (Natural History xix. 32), by the African peasantry. Garlic was placed by the...
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Northern European island appears in the work of Roman Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia of c. AD 77. Pliny described "Scandia" as an island located north of...
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Betonica officinalis (section History and uses)
leaves In cultivation Leaf adaxial side. Leaf abaxial side. In his Natural History, Pliny the Elder claims betony was "a plant more highly esteemed than any...
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square mile) and had an estimated population of 200,000. In his Natural History, Pliny the Elder celebrated it as "by far, the most famous of the cities...
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were those of the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder and geographer Gaius Julius Solinus. In his Natural History Pliny names the Greek geographer Xenophon...
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doi:10.15227/orgsyn.042.0062. Pliny the Elder with John Bostock and H.T. Riley, trans., The Natural History of Pliny (London, England: Henry G. Bohn...
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Sanitation in ancient Rome (category History of water supply and sanitation)
century AD, the Roman sewage system was very efficient. In his Natural History, Pliny remarked that of all the things Romans had accomplished, the sewers...
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it was exported to Rome from the 1st century BC onwards; in his Natural History, Pliny the Elder tells how columns of this marble were used in the home...
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Encyclopedism (section Pliny the Elder)
to a genre of literature was prompted by a line that Pliny used in the preface of Natural History: "My object is to treat of all those things which the...
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Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder, though with Pliny's work it represents one of the few Roman works dedicated to investigating the natural world. Seneca's...
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feet fast enough to get away. Hugag Book VIII, Chapter 16, The Natural History. Pliny the Elder. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London...
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