Pliny the Elder, tireless researcher and author, is writer of the encyclopedic typical background, in 37 books, an unmatched compendium of Roman wisdom. The contents of the books are as follows. ebook 1: desk of contents of the others and of specialists; 2: mathematical and metrological survey of the universe; 3-6: geography and ethnography of the identified international; 7: anthropology and the body structure of guy; 8-11: zoology; 12-19: botany, agriculture, and horticulture; 20-27: plant items as utilized in drugs; 28-32: clinical zoology; 33-37: minerals (and medicine), the positive arts, and gem stones. The Loeb Classical Library variation of typical historical past is in ten volumes.

S. J. Harrison units out to cartoon one resolution to a key query in Latin literary heritage: why did the interval c. 39-19 BC in Rome produce this type of wealthy variety of advanced poetical texts, mainly within the paintings of the well-known poets Vergil and Horace? Harrison argues that one valuable element of this literary flourishing used to be the way varied poetic genres or types (pastoral, epic, tragedy, and so forth.

The 1st entire examine of Roman verse satire to seem considering the fact that 1976 offers a clean and fascinating survey of the sector. instead of describing satire's background as a chain of discrete achievements, it relates these achievements to each other in the sort of means that, within the circulate from Lucilius, to Horace, to Persius, to Juvenal, we're made to feel, and notice played, the expanding strain of imperial oversight in historic Rome.

This instruction manual was once produced with the purpose of delivering scholars with an advent to previous Irish literature in addition to to the language. one of many outstanding outdated Irish tales is used because the easy textual content. Examples of poems, and of the glosses, complement it. All are completely annotated. The grammatical info supplied in those annotations is summarized in grammatical sections facing particular structures and varieties.

By a slave, not by a fellow freeraan. c. * 40 BOOK XXXIII. XIV. 48-xv. 51 hiinger for gold flared up with a sort of frenzy, as the friend of Gaius Gracchus, Septumuleius, a price having been set on Gracchus's head to the amount of its weight in gold, when Gracchus's head had been cut ofF, brought it to Opimius," after adding to his unnatural murder by putting lead in the mouth of the corpse, and so cheated the state in addition. c. ^ These are the things that the lust for possessions engenders One is ashamed to see the new-fangled names that are invented every now and then from the Greek to denote silver vessels filigreed or inlaid with gold, niceties which make gilded plate fetch a higher price than gold plate, when we know that Spartacus " issued an order to his camp forbidding anybody to possess gold or silver so much more spirit was there then in our run-away slaves The orator Messala has told us that the triumvir Antony used vessels of c.

XXI. 66-69 in the detritus of rivers, for instance in the Po in Italy, the Maritza in Thrace, the Sarabat in Asia Minor and the Ganges in India and there is no gold that is in a more perfect state, as it is thoroughly polished by the mere friction of the current. Another method is by sinking shafts or it is sought for in the fallen debris of mountains. Each of these methods must be described. People seeking for gold begin by getting up segullum^ that is the name for earth that indicates the presence of gold.