The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1
2. BOOK I.
3. BOOK II.
4. 1. Whether the world be finite, and whether there be more than
5. 9. An account of the observations that have been made on the
6. 12. Of the motions of the planets and the general laws of their
7. 13. Why the same stars appear at some times more lofty and at
8. 17. Of the motion of the sun and the cause of the irregularity
9. 25. Examples from history of celestial prodigies;
10. 35. An ominous appearance in the heavens, that was seen
11. 50. Tornadoes; blasting winds; whirlwinds, and other wonderful
12. 51. Of thunder; in what countries it does not fall, and for
13. 52. Of the different kinds of lightning and their wonderful
14. 58. Rattling of arms and the sound of trumpets heard in
15. 59. Of stones that have fallen from the clouds. The opinion of
16. 61. The nature of hail, snow, hoar, mist, dew; the forms
17. 66. How the water is connected with the earth. Of the
18. 72. In what places eclipses are invisible, and why this is
19. 76. Where this takes place twice in the year and where the
20. 80. Of the difference of nations as depending on the nature
21. 96. Of certain lands which are always shaking, and of
22. BOOK III.
23. 1. The boundaries and gulfs of Europe first set forth in
24. BOOK IV.
25. 27. The islands of the Euxine. The islands of the northern
26. BOOK V.
27. 44. The islands of the Propontis 496
28. BOOK I.[34]
29. BOOK II.
30. BOOK III.
31. INTRODUCTION.
32. BOOK IV.
33. BOOK V.
34. 166. This island was formerly called Ophiussa[4210], Asteria[4211],
35. 1541. For an account of Ptolemy I may refer to the article in the Biog.
36. 11. It is not easy to ascertain the precise meaning of the terms
37. 5. p. 701, 702. From the allusion which is made to it by Anacreon, in
38. 272. But Marcus has shown that the opinion of Hardouin is inadmissible
39. 198. See Ptolemy’s Cent. Dict. no. 100, for the opinion, that comets
40. 88. p. 178.
41. 1. p. 683.
42. 343. Perhaps it most nearly corresponds to the term “hurricane.”
43. 2. refer to the destruction of temples at Rome by lightning.
44. 400. But to this, I conceive, it may be objected, that the words “inter
45. 443. They are referred to by Q. Curtius as a tribe of the Æthiopians,
46. 102. There is considerable difficulty in determining their position,
47. 55. It rivalled its neighbour Baiæ in ministering to the luxury of the
48. 490. The site of the ancient town of Marathon is thought not to have
49. 455. Their kingdom was finally destroyed by Belisarius.
50. 44. Strabo describes the Marsyas and Mæander as rising, according to
51. 1. Periander of Corinth, one of the Seven Wise Men, who wrote a
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