The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 2

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H. G. Bohn, 1890 - 544 pages
 

Contents

The situation of Cappadocia
16
The Lesser and the Greater Armenia
17
The rivers Cyrus and Araxes
18
Albania Iberia and the adjoining nations
20
The passes of the Caucasus
21
The islands of the Euxine
22
Nations in the vicinity of the Scythian Ocean
23
The Caspian and Hyrcanian Sea
24
Adiabene
27
Media and the Caspian Gates
28
Nations situate around the Hyrcanian Sea
30
Precepts the most useful in life
32
The nations of Scythia and the countries on the Eastern Ocean
33
СНАР
37
The nations of India
38
The Ganges
43
The Indus
46
Taprobane
51
The Ariani and the adjoining nations
56
Voyages to India
60
Carmania
66
The Parthian Empire
68
Mesopotamia
73
The Tigris
77
Arabia
83
The Gulfs of the Red
91
75
92
Troglodytice
93
Ethiopia
99
Islands of the Ethiopian
105
The Fortunate Islands
107
The comparative distances of places on the face of the earth
108
Division of the earth into parallels and shadows of equal length
110
BOOK VII
117
MAN HIS BIRTH HIS ORGANIZATION AND THE INVENTION OF THE ARTS 1
119
The wonderful forms of different nations
122
Marvellous births
137
The generation of man the unusual duration of pregnancy in stances of it from seven to twelve months
139
Indications of the sex of the child during the pregnancy of the mother
141
Monstrous births 117 122 135
142
The conception and generation of man
144
Striking instances of resemblance
145
What men are suited for generation Instances of very nume rous offspring
148
At what age generation ceases 150 7 Of those who have been cut out of the womb 8 Who were called Vopisci 13 Remarkable circumstances connect...
150
The theory of generation
153
Children remarkable for their precocity 16 Examples of unusual size
157
Some remarkable properties of the body
158
Instances of extraordinary strength
160
Instances of remarkable agility
161
Instances of acuteness of sight
162
Instances of remarkable acuteness of hearing
163
Instances of endurance of pain
164
Memory
165
Vigour of mind
166
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167
Union in the same person of three of the highest qualities with the greatest purity
169
Instances of extreme courage
170
Men of remarkable genius
173
Men who have been remarkable for wisdom
174
Names of men who have excelled in the arts astrology grammar
182
Remarkable example of vicissitudes
189
The misfortunes of Augustus
195
The greatest length of life
201
Various instances of diseases
207
The scincus
289
Nations that have been exterminated by animals
295
The chameleon
303
The mice of Pontus and of the Alps
308
The generation of the
316
Mares impregnated by the wind
322
The Egyptian Apis
330
Different kinds of cloth
337
The
343
Animals which are tamed in part only
350
BOOK IX
358
The balæna and the orca
365
Human beings who have been beloved by dolphins
371
The tursio
377
Fishes which conceal themselves during the summer those which
396
Enormous prices of some fish
403
Eels
409
Fishes which fly above the waterthe seaswallowthe fish that
415
The sailing nauplius
422
Various kinds of shellfish
428
CHAP Page 54 Pearls how they are produced and where
430
How pearls are found
433
The various kinds of pearls
434
Remarkable facts connected with pearlstheir nature
436
Instances of the use of pearls
437
How pearls first came into use at Rome
440
The nature of the murex and the purple
441
The different kinds of purples
443
How wools are dyed with the juices of the purple
445
When purple was first used at Rome when the laticlave vestment and the prætexta were first worn
447
Fabrics called conchyliated
448
The amethyst the Tyrian the hysginian and the crimson tints
449
The pinna and the pinnotheres
450
The sensitiveness of wateranimals the torpedo the pastinaca
451
Bodies which have a third nature that of the animal and vegetable the scolopendra the glanis and the ramfish combinedthe seanettle
453
Sponges the various kinds of them and where they are pro
454
Dogfish
456
Fishes which are enclosed in a stony shellseaanimals w have no sensationother animals which live in the mix 230
458
Venomous seaanimals
459
The maladies of fishes
460
The generation of fishes
461
Fishes which are both oviparous and viviparous
465
Fishes the belly of which opens in spawning and then closes again
466
The longest lives known amongst fishes
467
Who was the first inventor of preserves for other fish
469
Who invented preserves for seasnails
470
Landfishes
471
The mice of the Nile
472
How the fish called the anthias is taken
473
Seastars
474
The marvellous properties of the dactylus
475
BOOK X
478
The phoenix
479
The different kinds of eagles 481
481
The natural characteristics of the eagle
484
In what places hawks and men pursue the chase in company
488
The owlet
494
The Commagenian medicamen
500
Birds which remain with us throughout the year birds which
506
Other kinds of aquatic birds
513
Wonderful things done by them prices at which they have been
519
The birds of Diomedes
526
other oviparous animals
532
What eggs are called hypenemia and what cynosura
539

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