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's Natural History recommended stewing them with honey and noted three dozen varieties.

* 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.

* Holland's translation of Pliny's Natural History ( in progress, Books I ‑ III, VII ‑ XIII )

May I say that you have just demonstrated the truth of an old proverb -- the younger Pliny's, if memory serves me -- which, translated freely from the archaic Latin, says, ' The more haste, the less peed ' ''.

Another difficulty is that manuscripts of early writers were often incomplete: it is apparent that Bede had access to Pliny's Encyclopedia, for example, but it seems that the version he had was missing book xviii, as he would almost certainly have quoted from it in his De temporum ratione.

The elder Domitia Lucilla had inherited a great fortune ( described at length in one of Pliny's letters ) from her maternal grandfather and her paternal grandfather by adoption.

Pliny's career is commonly considered as a summary of the main Roman public charges and is the best-documented example from this period, offering proof for many aspects of imperial culture.

" Pliny's " Seven Seas " were interlinked coastal lagoons, separated from the open sea by sandspits and barrier islands.

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 %.

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.

It is unclear from Pliny's description whether both Greek statues had originally represented the same Greek deity.

Although Pliny's treatment of the subject is more extensive, Theophrastus is more systematic and his work is comparatively free from fable and magic.

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.

Narnia is inhabited by Marsh-wiggles ( creatures of Lewis ' own invention ), and Dufflepuds ( adapted from Pliny's Monopods ) live on a distant island.

The Hyantes, descendants of Hyas — or rather of the Hyades, for the fertility of rain-nymphs needs no male consort — were the original (" Pelasgian ") inhabitants of Boeotia, from which country they were expelled by the followers of Cadmus ( Peck ; Pliny's Natural History, iv. 12 ).

Pliny's obscure reference may be to the statue of Attus Navius in front of the Curia Hostilia: he stood with his lituus raised in an attitude that connected the Ficus Navia and the accompanying representation of the she-wolf to the Ficus Ruminalis, " as if " the tree had crossed from one space to the other.

Presently it is thought that the mythological character Lusus derives from a mistranslation of the expression lusum enin Liberi patris (" from lusus father Liber derives "), in Pliny's Naturalis Historia.

:* Extracts from Pliny's Natural History

Both Pliny's Natural History and Lucian's Philopseudes described Roman marbles of a Diadumenos copied from Greek originals in bronze, yet it was not recognized until 1878 that the Roman marble from Vaison-la-Romaine ( Roman Vasio ) in the British Museum and two others recreate the lost Polyclitan bronze original.