Chapter 1

1. Chapter 1 2. BOOK VI. 3. 5. The region of Colica, the nations of the Achæi, and other 4. 19. The nations of Scythia and the countries on the Eastern 5. 38. The comparative distances of places on the face of the 6. 39. Division of the earth into parallels and shadows of equal 7. BOOK VII. 8. 4. The generation of man; the unusual duration of pregnancy; 9. 5. Indications of the sex of the child during the pregnancy 10. 11. What men are suited for generation. Instances of very 11. 13. Remarkable circumstances connected with the menstrual 12. 15. Some account of the teeth, and some facts concerning 13. 28. Union in the same person of three of the highest 14. 37. Names of men who have excelled in the arts, astrology, 15. 39. Painting; engraving on bronze, marble, and ivory; 16. 42. Rare instances of good fortune continuing in the same 17. 45. Ten very fortunate circumstances which have happened to 18. 48. The man whom the gods ordered to be worshipped during his 19. 53. Persons who have come to life again after being laid out 20. 58. The things about which mankind first of all agreed. The 21. BOOK VIII. 22. 10. The birth of the elephant, and other particulars 23. 11. In what countries the elephant is found; the antipathy 24. 16. The animals of the north; the elk, the achlis, and the 25. 20. Who it was that first introduced combats of lions at 26. 24. The decree of the Senate, and laws respecting African 27. 32. The animals of Æthiopia; a wild beast which kills with 28. 40. Who first exhibited the hippopotamus and the crocodile 29. 41. The medicinal remedies which have been borrowed from 30. 52. Other animals which change colour; the tarandus, the 31. 61. The qualities of the dog; examples of its attachment to 32. 65. The disposition of the horse; remarkable facts concerning 33. 78. The wild boar; who was the first to establish parks for 34. 84. Animals which injure strangers only, as also animals 35. BOOK IX. 36. 4. The forms of the Tritons and Nereids. The forms of 37. 12. Turtles; the various kinds of turtles, and how they are 38. 15. Those which are covered with hair, or have none, and 39. 18. Tunnies, cordyla, and pelamides, and the various parts 40. 20. Fishes which are never found in the Euxine; those which 41. 24. Fishes which have a stone in the head; those which keep 42. 25. Fishes which conceal themselves during the summer; those 43. 30. The various kinds of mullets, and the sargus that attends 44. 35. Fishes which come on land; the proper time for catching 45. 36. Classification of fishes, according to the shape of the 46. 43. Fishes which fly above the water—the sea-swallow—the 47. 50. Sea-animals which are enclosed with a crust; the 48. 51. The various kinds of crabs; the pinnotheres, the sea 49. 63. When purple was first used at Rome; when the laticlave 50. 65. The amethyst, the Tyrian, the hysginian, and the crimson 51. 67. The sensitiveness of water-animals; the torpedo, the 52. 68. Bodies which have a third nature, that of the animal and 53. 69. Sponges; the various kinds of them, and where they are 54. 71. Fishes which are enclosed in a stony shell—sea-animals 55. 76. Fishes the belly of which opens in spawning, and then 56. 77. Fishes which have a womb; those which impregnate 57. 88. The antipathies and sympathies that exist between aquatic 58. BOOK X. 59. 5. When the eagle was first used as the standard of the Roman 60. 6. An eagle which precipitated itself on the funeral pile of 61. 10. In what places hawks and men pursue the chase in company 62. 11. The only bird that is killed by those of its own kind.—A 63. 14. Crows. Birds of ill omen. At what seasons they are not 64. 17. Birds, the race of which is extinct, or of which all 65. 23. Who was the first to kill the peacock for food. Who first 66. 33. Foreign birds which visit us; the quail, the glottis, the 67. 35. Birds which take their departure from us, and whither 68. 36. Birds which remain with us throughout the year; birds 69. 42. The various kinds of birds which afford omens by their 70. 47. The halcyones: the halcyon days that are favourable to 71. 49. The instinctive cleverness displayed by birds in the 72. 53. Wonderful things done by them; prices at which they 73. 57. The instincts of birds—the carduelis, the taurus, the 74. 60. A sedition that arose among the Roman people, in 75. 67. Foreign birds: the phalerides, the pheasant, and the 76. 68. The phœnicopterus, the attagen, the phalacrocorax, the 77. 71. Who first invented the art of cramming poultry: why the 78. 79. When birds lay, and how many eggs. The various kinds of 79. 80. What eggs are called hypenemia, and what cynosura. How 80. 81. The only winged animal that is viviparous, and nurtures 81. 82. Terrestrial animals that are oviparous. Various kinds of 82. 87. Animals which are born of beings that have not been born 83. 88. The senses of animals—that all have the senses of touch 84. 93. Animals which live on earth—animals which will not die of 85. 95. Antipathies of animals. Proofs that they are sensible of 86. 98. What animals are subject to dreams 553 87. BOOK VI. 88. BOOK VII.[835] 89. introduction into Rome of the Mother of the gods.[1156] 90. BOOK VIII. 91. BOOK IX. 92. BOOK X.