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 88
copper, and filuer money ismelted in the bagges, and yet the verie bagges no whit fcortchcd, no nor die waxe of the feale^ hurt and defaced, or put out of order. Marti a a noble Ladieof Rome being great with child,was ftrucke with lightning: the child fbecwent withall was killed within her, and… … and cleare day fmttten with ligh Tlie fccond Booke of
Pre-Linnean works · Natural history
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