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.

Although there were earlier works of similar nature, by Marcus Terentius Varro for example, Pliny's was the only one to survive the Dark Ages.

Until that time, Pliny's work Historia Naturalis was the main source of information on metals and mining techniques, and Agricola made numerous references to the Roman encyclopedia.

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.

When Pliny the Younger was 18, his uncle Pliny died attempting to rescue victims of the Vesuvius eruption, and the terms of the Elder Pliny's will passed his estate to his nephew.

In order to reconcile these conflicting statements, some suppose that Pliny's date is wrong and that the statue of Heracles had been made by Ageladas long before it was set up at Melite.

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

Pliny's remark that Myron's works were numerosior than those of Polycleitus and " more diligent " seem to suggest that they were considered more harmonious in proportions ( numeri ) and at the same time more convincing in their realism: diligentia connoted " attentive care to fine points ", a quality that, in moderation, was characteristic of the best works of art, according to critics in Antiquity.

Lorenzo, furthermore, is not only magnificent but, as was Alexander in Pliny's story, also magnanimous, as well.

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.

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.

Next to Phidias, Myron and Kresilas, he is considered the most important sculptor of Classical antiquity: the 4th-century catalogue attributed to Xenocrates ( the " Xenocratic catalogue "), which was Pliny's guide in matters of art, ranked him between Phidias and Myron.

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.

This was followed by the text of Polyaenus, an editio princeps, 1589 ; a text of Aristotle, 1590 ; and a few notes contributed to Estienne's editions of Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Pliny's Epistolae.

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.

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

Pliny's book was widely enjoyed and uncritically believed through the European Middle Ages, during which the manticore was sometimes illustrated in bestiaries.

The twelfth century legend was based on a reference in Pliny's Natural History that the ichneumon lay in wait for the crocodile to open its jaws for the trochilus bird to enter and pick its teeth clean.

According to the scholar Pliny, the city of Kapiśi ( also referred to as Kaphusa by Pliny's copyist Solinus and Kapisene by other classical chroniclers ) was destroyed in the sixth century BCE by the Achaemenid emperor Cyrus ( Kurush ) ( 559-530 BC ).

The earliest printed books and broadsheets were known as incunabula and the first printed herbal appeared in 1469, a version of Pliny's Historia Naturalis: this was published nine years before Dioscorides De Materia Medica was set in type.

Argenteus, meaning " of silver " in Latin, was first used in Pliny's Natural History in the phrase " argenteus nummus " ( silver coin ).

Others think that Pliny's date is correct, but that Ageladas did not make the statues of the Olympic victors mentioned by Pausanias until many years after their victories ; which in the case of three persons, the dates of whose victories are so nearly the same, would be a very extraordinary coincidence.

) 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 ).

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.

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 ' ''.

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.

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 ".

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.

In Pliny's only other mention of the Gutones, he states that the Vandals are one of the five races of Germany, and that the Vandals include the Burgodiones, the Varinnae, the Charini and the Gutones.

As those Gutones are put forward as Pliny's interpretation, not Pytheas ’, the early date is unconfirmed, but not necessarily invalid.

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

Pliny's description of the exposed portion of the tomb is intractable ; Pliny, it seems clear, had not observed this structure himself, but is quoting the historian and Roman antiquarian Varro.

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.

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'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.

Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him.

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.

In Pliny's time, 49 independent communities still existed in Umbria, and the abundance of inscriptions and the high proportion of recruits in the imperial army attest to its population.

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