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Pliny indeed mentions a great calamity which the city had sustained, when ( he tells us ) half of it was swallowed up by the sea, probably from an earthquake having caused the fall of part of the hill on which it stands, but we have no clue to the date of this event ; The Itineraries attest the existence of Tyndaris, apparently still as a considerable place, in the fourth century.
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Pliny the Elder indeed, mentions its name ( Selinus oppidum ), as if it still existed as a town in his time, but Strabo distinctly classes it with extinct cities.
Nonetheless, Rasmus Christian Rask concluded that the texts must indeed be the remnants of a much larger literature, as Pliny the Elder had suggested in his Naturalis Historiae, where he describes one Hermippus of Smyrna having " interpreted two million verses of Zoroaster " in the 3rd century BC.
Certain astrological fragments recorded in Pliny the Elder, Censorinus, Flavius Josephus, and Marcus Vitruvius Pollio are also attributed to Berossus, but are of unknown provenance, or indeed are uncertain as to where they might fit into his History.
Pliny, indeed, notices the Phintienses ( or Phthinthienses as the name is written in some manuscripts ) among the stipendiary towns of Sicily ; and its name is found also in Ptolemy ( who writes it ); but it is strange that both these writers reckon it among the inland towns of Sicily, though its maritime position is clearly attested both by Diodorus and Cicero.
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Pliny mentions an island named Baltia ( or Balcia ) with reference to accounts of Pytheas and Xenophon.
Pliny mentions some painted ceilings in his day in the town of Ardea, which had been done prior to the foundation of Rome.
Stalactites are first mentioned ( though not by name ) by the Roman natural historian Pliny in a text which also mentions stalagmites and columns and refers to their creation by the dripping of water.
Pliny the Elder mentions the oryx and an Indian ox ( perhaps a rhinoceros ) as one-horned beasts, as well as " a very fierce animal called the monoceros which has the head of the stag, the feet of the elephant, and the tail of the boar, while the rest of the body is like that of the horse ; it makes a deep lowing noise, and has a single black horn, which projects from the middle of its forehead, two cubits in length.
Arrian mentions many others by name, but they would seem to have been little more than mountain torrents: the most important of them were Charieis, Chobus or Cobus, Singames, Tarsuras, Hippus, Astelephus, Chrysorrhoas, several of which are also noticed by Ptolemy and Pliny.
Pliny ( Natural History 6. 30. 123 ) mentions a sect, or school of Chaldeans called the Hippareni.
Pliny mentions nine gods of the Etruscans who had the power of wielding thunderbolts, pointing toward Martianus's Novensiles as gods pertaining to the use of thunder and lightning ( fulgura ) as signs.
The Roman encyclopedist Pliny mentions in his Naturalis Historia of around 70 AD water-powered trip hammers operating in the greater part of Italy.
Pliny also mentions Aseni and Asoi clans south of the Hindukush.
Pliny mentions the wines of Cesena as among the best.
Pliny the Younger ( 63 – c. 113 ), who was not a Christian himself, mentions not only fixed times of prayer by believers, but also specific services — other than the Eucharist — assigned to those times: “ they met on a stated day before it was light, and addressed a form of prayer to Christ, as to a divinity ... after which it was their custom to separate, and then reassemble, to eat in common a harmless meal.
Pliny the Elder watched it being built and mentions it in his Naturalis Historia.
Pliny the Elder mentions in his Naturalis Historia that Spain had encroached on the sea and local lakes as a result of ground sluicing operations.
Pliny the Elder mentions a meeting between Caesar's predecessor as proconsul of Cisalpine Gaul, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer, and a king of the Suebi ; which took place during Celer's proconsulship in 62 BC.
Pliny the Younger mentions verse written by Nepos, and in his own Life of Dion, Nepos himself refers to a work of his own authorship, De Historicis.
Pliny the Elder ( N. H. 5. 19 ), using the name ' Pacida ', mentions that the river flowed from Lake Cendevia ( now below Mount Carmel ) for five miles ( 8 km ) to the sea near " Ptolemais Ace ", and that it was celebrated for its vitrous sands.
There is confusion over the correct location of Endymion, as some sources suppose that one was, or was related to, the prince of Elis, and the other was a shepherd from Caria — or, a later suggestion, an astronomer: Pliny the Elder mentions Endymion as the first human to observe the movements of the moon, which ( according to Pliny ) accounts for Endymion's love.
Pliny the Elder ( 23 – 79 AD ) mentions Greek ships anchored at Muziris and Nelcynda.
( Pliny the Younger mentions Rectina, whom he calls the wife of Tascius, in Letter 16 of book VI of his Letters.
Columella, a Latin writer of the 1st century AD, mentions the processing of wax from beehives in De Re Rustica, perhaps for casting, as does Pliny the Elder, who details a sophisticated procedure for making Punic wax.
Pliny also mentions the use of lead, which is known to help molten bronze flow into all areas and parts of complex moulds.
According to Pliny the Elder ( 23-79 AD ), who mentions its fragrant smell, it was the extract of an herb called " ladan.
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Pliny is presenting an archaic view, as in his time amber was a precious stone brought from the Baltic at great expense, but the Germans, he says, use it for firewood, according to Pytheas.
They are described by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia in great detail.
According to Pliny, the tomb of the great Etruscan general Lars Porsena contained an underground maze.
The method of comparing hardness by seeing which minerals can scratch others, however, is of great antiquity, having first been mentioned by Theophrastus in his treatise On Stones, c. 300 BC, followed by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia, c. 77 AD.
Pliny is presenting an archaic view, as in his time amber was a precious stone brought from the Baltic at great expense, but the Germans, he says, use it for firewood, according to Pytheas.
It enjoyed great prosperity, however, due to their growing of spelt, a grain that was put into groats, wine, roses, spices, unguents etc., and also owing to its manufacture, especially of bronze objects, of which both the elder Cato and the elder Pliny speak in the highest terms.
Once again, Cruttwell evidences some unease with his stock pronouncements: " The Natural History of Pliny shows how much remained to be done in fields of great interest.
The Roman author and military officer, Pliny the Elder, drawing upon the accounts of Juba II, king of Mauretania, stated that a Mauretanian expedition to the islands around 50 BCE found the ruins of great buildings, but otherwise no population to speak of.
Apelles allowed the superiority of some of his contemporaries in particular matters: according to Pliny he admired the dispositio of Melanthius, i. e. the way in which he spaced his figures, and the mensurae of Asclepiodorus, who must have been a great master of symmetry and proportion.
About 1863, after completing his translations of Hippocrates and his Pliny, he set to work in earnest on his great French dictionary.
Of northern Europe his knowledge was imperfect, but he speaks of a great bay (" Codanus sinus ") to the north of Germany, among whose many islands was one, " Codanovia ," of pre-eminent size ; this name reappears in Pliny the Elder's work as Scatinavia.
In the first century CE, however, it was no more than " a modest vestige of a hitherto great city " ( Pliny ).
Pliny also said Cimon of Cleonae's attention to detail and accuracy to life was so great, that he was famously able to dispense with what had always been the universal custom of affixing the name of generals to their portraits, since they were so readily recognizable.
Gallus was a man of great learning, an excellent Greek scholar, and in his later years devoted himself to the study of astronomy, on which subject he is quoted as an authority by Pliny.
Pliny, who tells the anecdote, adds that he won his wager, for he reached a great age and died at last from an accident.
The species was mentioned by Pliny the Elder in the 1st century AD and by the great herbalists, including Dioscorides.
Pliny the Elder ( 23 AD-79 AD ) wrote “ It is beyond calculation how great is the debt owed to the Romans, who swept away the monstrous rites, in which to kill a man was the highest religious duty and for him to be eaten a passport to health .”
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