Claudius is the source for numerous passages of Pliny's Natural History.

In Pliny's Natural History ( 7. 198 ) he is credited with inventing carpentry " and with it the saw, axe, plumb-line, drill, glue, and isinglass ".

Pliny's Natural History mentions four ancient labyrinths: the Cretan labyrinth, an Egyptian labyrinth, a Lemnian labyrinth and an Italian labyrinth.

Pytheas described his travels in a work that has not survived ; only excerpts remain, quoted or paraphrased by later authors, most familiarly in Strabo's Geographica, Pliny's Natural History and passages in Diodorus of Sicily's history.

* Pliny the Elder ( 23 – 79 CE ), ancient Roman nobleman, scientist and historian, author of Naturalis Historia, " Pliny's Natural History "

The word " alumen " occurs in Pliny's Natural History.

Pliny's Natural History praised the cheese of Lozère:

Some scholars identify it with the Dirce bull mentioned in Pliny's Natural History, but this is disputed.

Among very few representations of Protesilaus, a sculpture by Deinomenes is just a passing mention in Pliny's Natural History ; the outstanding surviving examples are two Roman copies of a lost mid-fifth century Greek bronze original represent Protesilaus at his defining moment, one of them in a torso the British Museum, the other at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

According to Pliny's Natural History, Ageladas of Argos was his teacher.

His most famous works according to Pliny's Natural History ( 34. 57-59 ) were a heifer, a dog ( canem, Cerberus?

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Provided with a human face and a scaly tail, as in Dante's vision of Geryon in Inferno xvii. 7 – 17, 25 – 27, hybrid monsters, more akin to the Manticore of Pliny's Natural History ( viii. 90 ), provided iconic representations of hypocrisy and fraud well into the seventeenth century, through an emblemmatic representation in Cesare Ripa's Iconologia.

10 ) states that it grew in Syria ; and, according to Pliny's Natural History, it was also a native plant of the Niger River and the Euphrates.

In this discussion of Pliny's Natural History Barbaro made 5000 corrections to the text.

Milner observes that it was " one of the most popular Latin technical works from Antiquity, rivalling the elder Pliny's Natural History in the number of surviving copies dating from before AD 1300.

The name ' Evodia ' may in turn originate from the seven ' Haemodae ' of uncertain identification in Pliny's Natural History ( IV 16 ( 30 ) or Pomponius Mela's Chronographia ( III 6, 54 ).

* John J. Popovic, " Apelles, the greatest painter of Antiquity " Source quotes from Pliny's Natural History.

They also appear in Pliny the Elder's Natural History, together with Moses, as famous magicians of antiquity ; Pliny's citation is also referred to in Apuleius.

He continued translating and publishing his edition of Hippocrates ' writings, which was not completed until 1862, and he published a similar edition of Pliny's Natural History.

* Translation of Pliny's Natural History ( 1848 – 1850 )

Milner observes that it was " one of the most popular Latin technical works from Antiquity, rivalling the elder Pliny's Natural History in the number of surviving copies dating from before AD 1300.

The greater part is taken from Pliny's Natural History and the geography of Pomponius Mela.

Pliny's own table of contents for his encyclopedic Historia naturalis (" Natural History ") may be viewed online in Latin and in English ( following dedication ).

Pliny's Natural History affirmed that the " Imperial Porphyry " had been discovered at an isolated site in Egypt in AD 18, by a Roman legionary named Caius Cominius Leugas.

From the nine surviving bematists ' measurements in Pliny's Naturalis Historia eight show a deviation of less than 5 % from the actual distance, three of them being within 1 %.

The account in Germania is inconsistent with Strabo's and Pliny's on a major point.

geographers as having no heads, their mouths and eyes being in their breasts, generally identified with Pliny's Blemmyae.

In Pliny's letter, written in AD 112, he asks Trajan if the accused Christians brought before him should be punished based on the name ‘ Christian ’ alone, or for crimes associated with the name.

Pliny's narrative dwells upon a gigantic portrait-bust of Pompey, a thing of “ eastern splendor ” entirely covered with pearls, and with the benefit of hindsight, has this disembodied head anticipate Pompey ’ s later defeat at Pharsalus and subsequent decapitation in Egypt.

However, the description of the wine would also fit, for example, Dureza, and Pliny's observation that the vines of Allobrogica was resistant to cold is not entirely consistent with Syrah.

Pliny's father died at an early age when his son was still young ; as a result, Pliny probably lived with his mother.

If emotion threatened to get the better of her she excused herself from the room and would, in Pliny's words, " give herself to sorrow ," then return to her husband with a calm demeanor.

In antiquity, it covered more-or-less anything which is connected with nature or which uses materials drawn from nature ; see for example the contents of Pliny's encyclopedia of this title, published circa 77 to 79 AD.

According to Mommsen, Solinus also used a chronicle ( possibly by Cornelius Bocchus ) and a Chorographia pliniana, an epitome of Pliny's work with additions made about the time of Hadrian.

In Pliny's account, Menes was credited with being the inventor of writing in Egypt.

Pliny's Natural History and the epigram writer Martial both credit Cnaeus Matius Calvinus, in the circle of Julius Caesar, with introducing the first topiary to Roman gardens, and Pliny the Younger describes in a letter the elaborate figures of animals, inscriptions, cyphers and obelisks in clipped greens at his Tuscan villa ( Epistle vi, to Apollinaris ).

In medieval herbals, along with De Materia Medica it is Pliny's work that is the most frequently mentioned of the classical texts, even though the work De Simplicibus of Galen ( 131 – 201 CE ) is more detailed and notable.

In the 16th century, Olaus Magnus, a Swedish cartographer who was familiar with Pliny's writings, created a map where he placed the name " Scandia " in the middle of today's Sweden.

" Lemprière's Classical Dictionary reinforces Pliny's account of Endymion's attachment to astronomy and cites it as the source of why Endymion was said to have a relationship with the moon as she passed by.

Pliny's judgment that Silius wrote poetry maiore cura quam ingenio, " with more eagerness than genius " has encouraged the view that Silius is a talented but mediocre and uninspired poet.

) Pliny's idiocy drives Histor to insanity and, eventually, he murders him by stuffing him with eggs until he bursts, as he keeps using the word " egg " so it has no connection or relation to the context of what Histor was saying, ( only for Histor to be subsequently haunted by Pliny's equally pun-obsessed ghost ).

A running joke in this segment was that despite Pliny's apparent idiocy, he would occasionally counter Histor's right-wing views with extraordinarily eloquent and well constructed left-wing arguments.