The writers of those times, including Vitruvius, Frontinus and Pliny the Elder, treat these engines as commonplace, so their invention may be more ancient.

Pliny may have mentioned them, although there is some debate as to the exact nature of the stone he referred to as Adamas ; In 2005, Australia, Botswana, Russia and Canada ranked among the primary sources of gemstone diamond production .< ref >

Cape Verde may be referred to in the works " De choreographia " by Pomponius Mela ( died 45 CE / AD ) and " Historia naturalis " by Pliny the Elder ( died 79 CE / AD ).

Possibly in certain places the iron sulfate may have been nearly wanting, and then the salt would be white, and would answer, as Pliny says it did, for dyeing bright colors.

Pliny the Elder " notes that the most auspicious wood for wedding torches came from the spina alba, the may tree, which bore many fruits and hence symbolised fertility ".

Pliny the Elder describes its style and designers as Greek ; this may be further evidence of time-honoured and persistent plebeian cultural connections with Magna Graecia, well into the Imperial era, when Liber is found in some of the threefold, complementary deity-groupings of Imperial cult ; a saviour figure, like Hercules and the Emperor himself.

He was mentioned by his pupil, Pliny, and by Juvenal, who may have been another student, “ as an example of sobriety and of worldly success unusual in the teaching profession ” ( Gwynn, 139 ).

Pliny states that Chalcedon was first named Procerastis, a name which may be derived from a point of land near it: then it was named Colpusa, from the form of the harbour probably ; and finally Caecorum Oppidum, or the town of the blind.

Common as it is now on some of the lower slopes of the Alps of Piedmont and Savoy, it is uncertain whether the Romans were acquainted with the gooseberry, though it may possibly be alluded to in a vague passage of Pliny the Elder's Natural History ; the hot summers of Italy, in ancient times as at present, would be unfavourable to its cultivation.

Pliny connects a number of sayings to Apelles, which may come from Apelles ' lost treatise on the art of painting.

This statue may have represented Nero as the sun god Sol, as Pliny saw some resemblance.

The Mount may be the Mictis of Timaeus, mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia ( IV: XVI. 104 ), and the Ictis of Diodorus Siculus.

While Pliny may have been the primary source, scholars have identified others ; among them are Caesar's Gallic Wars, Strabo, Diodorus Siculus, Posidonius, Aufidius Bassus, and numerous non-literary sources: presumably based on interviews with traders and soldiers who had ventured beyond the Rhine and Danube borders, and Germanic mercenaries in Rome.

The skirret is of Chinese origin, but may have arrived in Europe in early times: it is presumed to be the siser mentioned by Pliny the Elder as a favourite of the Emperor Tiberius ( Natural History, 19. 27. 90 ), and was also grown by the Picts.

The myth of the one-horned unicorn may have originated from sightings of injured scimitar oryx ; Aristotle and Pliny the Elder held that the oryx was the unicorn's " prototype ".

It is possible that he may be identified with the Lucius Lucullus who was proconsul of Hispania Baetica, and a student of marine life, at the time Pliny the Elder wrote his Natural History ( c. 77 ).

The belief that the fore part of the name in Norse is from the word lamb makes perfect sense, but may be a later rationalisation for a name based on whatever the name of the island was at the time of Pliny and Ptolemy and the word ey.

Of the hyena, Pliny writes that it " is popularly believed to be bisexual and to become male and female in alternate years, the female bearing offspring without any male ," and that " among the shepherds ’ s homesteads it simulates human speech, and picks up the name of one of them so as to call him to come out of doors and tear him to pieces, and also that it imitates a person being sick, to attract the dogs so that it may attack them ; that this animal alone digs up corpses ; that a female is seldom caught ; that its eyes have a thousand variations of color ; moreover that when its shadow falls on dogs they are struck dumb ; and that it has certain magic arts by which it causes every animal at which it gazes three times to stand rooted to the spot.

Delastelle may have been unaware of Playfair, but he had read of the fractionating cipher described by Pliny Chase in 1859.

Pliny also reports a curious description of the Seres made by an embassy from Taprobane to Emperor Claudius, suggesting they may be referring to the ancient Caucasian populations of the Tarim Basin, such as the Tocharians:

The fruit is edible, though many people find it bland and meally ; the name ' unedo ' is explained by Pliny the Elder as being derived from unum edo " I eat one ", which may seem an apt response to the flavour.

Although Turkic languages may have been spoken as early as 600 BC, the first mention of the ethnonym " Turk " may date from Herodotus ' ( c. 484-425 BCE ) reference to " Targitas "; furthermore, during the first century CE, Pomponius Mela refers to the " Turcae " in the forecasts north of the Sea of Azov, and Pliny the Elder lists the " Tyrcae " among the people of the same area.

In Arrian's Periplus Ponti Euxini, it is called the Άκαμψις Acampsis ; Pliny may have confused it with the Bathys.

As the Eudoses are the Jutes, these names probably refer to localities in Jutland or on the Baltic coast, in which case their inhabitants would be Cimbri or Teutones for Pliny.

Aristotle and Pliny refer to tolls in Arabia and other parts of Asia.

Later writers such as Arrian, Strabo, Diodorus, and Pliny refer to Indica in their works.

Starting with Pliny the Elder, later writers sometimes refer to Cato the Younger as " Cato Uticensis " (" the Utican ").

This passage shows the clear contempt of Suetonius for Christians-the same contempt expressed by Tacitus and Pliny the younger in their writings, but does not refer to Jesus himself.

According to historians, as a result of the linguistic unity of the Getae and Dacians that result from the record of ancient writers Strabo, Cassius Dio, Trogus Pompeius, Appian and Pliny the Elder, contemporary historiography often uses the term Geto-Dacians to refer to the people living in the area between the Carpathians, the Haemus ( Balkan ) Mountains and the Black Sea.

The Bulgarian historian and thracologist Alexander Fol considers that the Getae became known as " Dacians " in Greek and Latin in the writings of Caesar, Strabo and Pliny the Elder, as Roman observers adopted the name of the Dacian tribe to refer to all the unconquered inhabitants north of the Danube.

The Varni ( Procopius ), Varini ( Tacitus ), Varinnae ( Pliny the Elder ), Wærne / Werne ( Widsith ) and Warnii ( the Thuringian Law ) probably refer to a little known Germanic tribe.

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