The history of the world, commonly called the Naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus (1634)
Pliny, the Elder, Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637, tr · London, A. Islip · leaf 66
e betweene them: alfo that fome are aged, and everhoarie and gray: others againe young and alwaies children: that they be blacke of colour aridcomplexion5winged,lame,hatched ot cgs,livingand dyingeach other day; are mecre foole-rics,litde better than childifh toies.ButitpafTeth and exceedeth all… … The fecond Booke of itnto a man is hc^tliat helpeth a man ;and this is the true and dired- pathway to cvetlafting glo- Gne. In this way went the noble Romans in old time; and in diis trad at this day gocthjwith hea.venly pace, nfafmn AuguUm, both he and hischildrcn: VcfpafimJ ray.themoihnightie…
Pre-Linnean works · Natural history
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