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Plinius Secundus (23 AD – August 25, 79), better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian. Spending most of his spare time studying, writing or investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field, he wrote an encyclopedic work, Naturalis H...read more

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Roman Historian (77 AD)

A Stranger To These Parts

Being An Intellectual

01 - Preface and The Life and Writings of Pliny, part 1

Something From The Jar

Smiling Fools Making Blunders

Race Going Under

I Want To See You

Conformist Song

33 - Book 5, Chapters 29-32 Caria; Lydia; Ionia; Aeolis

Hungry Mutant Corpuscles

Three Red Buttons

I Want Your Love

Forboding Cockroach

50 Million Toys

We Treat Sewage

Squishy House Blues

She's Gotta Be Cool!

Post War Pomigranite Girl

Vanilla Bicycle

Food For Parrot

A Sound Financial Merger

Masses of Dried Insects

Always Something Else

04 - Book 2, Chapters 1-5 - Whether the world be finite; Of the form of the world; Of its nature, whence the name is derived; Of the elements and the planets; Of God.

03 - Book 1, Dedication. - C. Plinius Secundus to his friend Titus Vespasian

02 - The Life and Writings of Pliny, part 2

18 - Book 3, Chapters 8-9 The seventh region of Italy; The first region of Italy; The Tiber; Rome

07 - Book 2, Chapters 14-23 Why the same stars have different motions; General laws of the planets; The reason why the stars are of different colours; Of the motion of the sun and the cause of the irregularity of the days; Why thunder is ascribed to Jupiter; Of the distance of the stars; Of the harmony of the stars; Of the dimensions of the world; Of the stars which appear suddenly, or of comets; Their nature, situation and species.

16 - Book 3, Chapter 4 Of Nearer Spain

02 - The Life and Writings of Pliny, part 2

17 - Book 3, Chapters 5-7 Of the province of Gallia Narbonensis; Of Italy; Of the ninth region of Italy

05 - Book 2, Chapters 6-8 - Of the nature of the stars; Of the motion of the planets; Of the eclipses of the moon and the sun; Of the magnitude of the stars

09 - Book 2, Chapters 46-55 The different kinds of winds; The periods of the winds; Nature of the winds; Ecnephias and Typhon; Tornadoes; Blasting winds; Whirlwinds and other wonderful kinds of tempests; Of thunder - in what countries it does not fall and for what reason; Of the different kinds of lightining and their wonderful effects; The Etrurian and the Roman observations on this point; Of conjuring up thunder; General laws of lightning.

14 - Book 2, Chapters 107-113, Summary The wonders of fire and water united; Of Maltha; Of naphtha; Places which are always burning; Wonders of fire alone; The dimensions of the earth; The harmonical proportions of the universe; Summary; Roman authors quoted; Foreign authors quoted

15 - Book 3, Introduction and Chapters 1-3 Introduction; The boundaries and gulfs of Europe first set forth in a general way; Of Spain generally; Of Baetica

06 - Book 2, Chapters 9-13 - An account of the observations that have been made on the heavens by many individuals; On the recurrence of the eclipses of the sun and the moon; Of the motion of the moon; Of the motions of the planets; Why the same stars appear at some times more lofty and at other times more near

35 - Book 20, Chapters 30-45: Remedies made from cichorium\; seris\; the cabbage\; opinions of the Greeks\; cabbage-sprouts\; the sea-cabbage\; the squill\; bulbs\; bulbine\; garden asparagus\; parsley\; aplastrum

19 - Book 3, Chapters 10-14 The third region of Italy; Sixty-four islands, among which are the Baleares; Corsica; Sardinia; Sicily

20 - Book 3, Chapters 15-17 Magna Graecia, beginning at Locri; The second region of Italy; The fourth region of Italy

04 - Book 2, Chapters 1-5 - Whether the world be finite; Of the form of the world; Of its nature, whence the name is derived; Of the elements and the planets; Of God.

18 - Book 24, Chapters 22-43: Resins; pitch; pissasphaltos; the torch-tree; the lentisk; the ash; the maple; the poplar; the elm; the linden tree; the elder; the juniper; the willow; the broom; the myrica; the blood red shrub.

23 - Book 4, Chapters 1-10 Epirus; Acarnania; Aetolia; Locris and Phocis; The Peloponnesus; Achaia; Messenia; Laconia; Argolis; Arcadia

13 - Book 23, Chapters 19-33: Particulars relative to wine; surrentine wines; falernian wines; setine wines; other wines; sixty-one observations relative to wine; in what maladies wine should be administered; artificial wines; vinegar; oxymeli; lees of wine; lees of vinegar; lees of sapa.

26 - Book 25, Chapters 75-90: The scorpio; the phrynion; the alisma; remedies against certain poisons; euclea; pericarpum; remedies for diseases of the head; hyssop; psyllion.

26 - Book 4, Chapters 26-30 Scythia; The islands of the Euxine; The islands of the northern ocean; Germany; Ninety-six islands of the Gallic Ocean; Britannia

20 - Book 24, Chapters 64-90: Gum; the white thorn; gum acacia; asphalatos; the yew; the bramble; the rhamnos; lycium; oporice; the chamelaea; the clinopodium; the clematis.

24 - Book 4, Chapters 11-18 Attica; Boeotia; Doris; Phthiotis; Thessaly Proper; Magnesia; Macedonia; Thrace; The Aegean Sea

02 - Book 26, Chapters 22 to 48. Tripolium; The gromphaena; The malundrum; Chalcetum; Molemonium; Halus or cotonea; The chamaedrops; The stcechas; Remedies for diseases of the belly; The astragalus; Ladanum; Chondris; Remedies for griping pains in the bowels; Remedies for diseases of the spleen.

24 - Book 25, Chapters 26-49: The mithridatia; the polemonia; centaurion; clymenus; gentian; artemisia or ambrosia; nymphaea; plantago; buglossos; buphthalmos; plants that have been discovered by certain nations; the cantabrica; the iberis.

38 - Book 20, Chapters 74-86: Remedies made from dill\; white and black poppy\; the wild poppy\; purslain\; coriander\; orage\; the mallow\; wild lapathum\; cultivated lapathum

09 - Book 22, Chapters 33-49: The Halimon, fourteen remedies; the acanthus; the bupleuron; the buprestis; the scandix; the caucalis; the scolymos or limonia; the condrion; mushrooms, peculiarities of their growth; fungi; silphium.

21 - Book 3, Chapters 18-22 The fifth region of Italy; The sixth region of Italy;The eighth region of Italy; The Padus; The eleventh region of Italy; Italia Transpadana; The tenth region of Italy

21 - Book 24, Chapters 91-120: Different opinions on the dracontium; the aron; the dracunculum; the millefolium; the myrrha; the aproxis; the woolplant; the stratiotes; the plant called Venus comb; gramen; dactylos; summary; authors quoted.

23 - Book 25, Chapters 8-25: Moly; the paeonia; the panaces; hyoscyamos; linozostis; millefolium; hellebore.

27 - Book 25, Chapters 91-110: Remedies for diseases of the eyes; mandragora; hemlock; molybdaena; capnos; acoron; cotyledon; remedies for diseases of the teeth; acanthis; ephemeron; labrum venereum; remedial preparations for offensive breath; summary; authors quoted.

27 - Books 4, Chapters 31-37 and Summary Gallia Belgica; Gallia Lugdunensis; Gallia Aquitanica; Nearer Spain, its coast along the Gallic Ocean; Lusitania; The islands in the Atlantic Ocean; The general measurement of Europe; Summary; Roman authors quoted; Foreign authors quoted

12 - Book 23, Chapters 1-18: Remedies derived from cultivated trees; the vine; omphacium; oenanthe; grapes; grape-stones; raisins; the labrusca or wild-vine; the white-vine; the black-vine; must.

02 - Book 21, Chapters 10-21: The rose, twelve varieties of it; the lily, four varieties of it; the narcissus, three varieties of it; violets; the caltha; the scopa regia; the bacchar; saffron; the nature of odours; the iris; the saliunca; the polium.

01 - Book 21, Chapters 1-9: The nature of flowers and garlands; garlands and chaplets; who invented the art of making garlands;the severity of the ancients in relation to chaplets; authors who have written on flowers.

14 - Book 23, Chapters 34-50: The leaves of the olive; the blossom of the olive; white olives; black olives; amurca of olives; omphacium; oil of oenanthe; castor oil; oil of almonds; oil of laurel;oil of citrus; oil of walnuts; oil of balsamum; malobathrum; oil of sesame; elaeomeli.

22 - Book 25, Chapters 1-7: When the wild plants were first brought into use; Latin authors; Greek authors; plants, the medicinal properties of which have been miraculously discovered; names of persons who have discovered famous plants.

17 - Book 24, Chapters 1-21: The antipathiers and sympathies among trees and plants; the lotus of Italy; acorns; mistletoe; the cork-tree; the beech; the cyprus; the cedar; galbanum; storax; the terebinth; the pithc-tree and the lark; the pityusa.

25 - Book 25, Chapters 50-74: Plants which have been discovered by certain animals; dogplant; dictamnon; the emplyment of these plants for injuries inflicted by serpents; the argemonic; agaria; verbenaca; blattaria; lemonium; quinquefolium; daucus; persolata; cyclaminos; peucedanum; the phlomys.

15 - Book 23, Chapters 51-65: The palm; remedies derived from various trees; six observations upon apples; twenty-two observations upon quinces; sweet apples; sour apples; citrus; pomegranates; balaustium; the wild pomegranate; pears; figs; the herb erineon.

08 - Book 22, Chapters 16-32: The Lamium, seven remedies; the scorpio; the leucacantha; the chamaeleon; the anchusa; the pseudoanchusa; the onochilon; the lotus-plant, four remedies; the heliotropium; the picris; the asphodel.

05 - Book 21, Chapters 60-71: Plants classified according to their leaves; the various kinds of eared plants; the lappa; the chondrylla; plants which blossom three times in a year; the asphodel or royal spear; six varieties of the rush; the cyperos.

11 - Book 22, Chapters 57-82: Remedies derived from grain; various kinds of meal; polenta, eight remedies; fine flour; millet; sesame; barley; bread, twenty one remedies; beans; lentils; chickpeas; lupine; summary; authors quoted.

03 - Book 21, Chapters 22-40: Fabrics which rival the colours of flowers; the amaranth; the cyanos; the petilium; the chrysocome; shrubs; the melothron and origanum; trefoil; thyme; conyza; the flower of Jove; plants in which the branches and roots are odoriferous; the adonium; the amaracum; where the melilote is found; the spring flowers; the summer flowers; the duration of life in the various kinds of flowers.

07 - Book 22, Chapters 1-15: Properties of plants; plants used for adornment; plants for dyeing;the grass crown; remedies derived from other chaplet plants;the erynge; the acanos; the nettle, sixty-one remedies.

10 - Book 22, Chapters 50-56: Propolis, five remedies; influences of aliments upon the disposition; hydromel, eighteen remedies; honied wine, six remedies; wax, eight remedies.

03 - Book 26, Chapters 49 to 70. Remedies for calculi and diseases of the bladder; Crethmos; The anthyllion; Cepeea; Hypericon; The chrysanthemum; Remedies for diseases of the testes and of the fundamente; Remedies for inflamed tumours; Aphrodisiacs and antaphrodisiacs; The orchis or serapias; Satyrion; Remedies for the gout and diseases of the feet; Sea-weed; Maladies which attack the whole of the body; The geranion; Remedies for epilepsy.

04 - Book 21, Chapters 41-59: Plants which should be sown among flowers for bees; the maladies of bees; the food of bees; poisoned honey; maddening honey; honey that flies will not touch; beehives; the best kind of wax; plants which grow spontaneously; the colocasia; plants which are always in flower; the cnecos; plants of a prickly nature; the nettle; the cactos.

22 - Book 3, Chapters 23-30 and Summary Istria, its people and locality; The Alps and the Alpine nations; Liburnia and Illyricum; Dalmatia; The Norici; Pannonia; Moesia; Islands of the Ionic Sea and the Adriatic; Summary; Roman authors quoted; Foreign authors quoted

01 - Book 26, Chapters 1 to 21. New forms of disease; The nature of lichen; Carbuncle; Elephantiasis; Colic; The new system of medicine: Asclepiades the physician; Quinzy; Scrofula; The plant called bellis; The condurdum; Cough; Bechion; Salvia; Affections of the side, chest, and stomach; Molon or syron; Amomum; The ephedra or anabasis; Geum.

16 - Book 23, Chapters 66-83: Plums; peaches; mulberries; cherries; pine-nuts; almonds; Greek nuts; walnuts; hazelnuts; carobs; the laurel; myrtle; the wild myrtle; summary; authors quoted.

19 - Book 24, Chapters 44-63: The siler; the alder; several varieties of the ivy; the reed; the papyrus; the ebony; the rhododendron; the rhus; rosemary; selago.

25 - Book 4, Chapters 19-25 The islands which lie before the lands already mentioned; Crete; Euboeia; The Cyclades; The Sporades; The Hellespont - The lake Maeotis; Dacia, Sarmatia

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23 - Book 8, Chapters 48-56: Bramble-frogs; the sea-calf; beavers; lizards; stags; the chameleon; other animals which change colors; the tarandus, the lycaon and the thos; the porcupine; bears and their cubs; the mice of Pontus and of the Alps; hedgehogs

34 - Book 5, Chapters 33-39 Troas and the adjoining nations; The islands which lie in front of Asia; Cyprus; Rhodes; Samos; Chios; Lesbos

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Book 1, Dedication (C. Plinius Secundus to his friend Titus Vespasian)

24-Book 15, chapters 9-18

05 - Book 2, Chapters 6-8 - Of the nature of the stars; Of the motion of the planets; Of the eclipses of the moon and the sun; Of the magnitude of the stars

26 - book 2, Chapters 27-40

31 - Book 5, Chapters 14-19

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