A Selection From Pliny's Letters, With Notes, Maps, And Plan
A Selection From Pliny's Letters, With Notes, Maps, And Plan
The Younger Pliny
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temporis medium : cf. Ovid. Metam. iv. 167 : * Mediumque fuit breve tempus. ' 74. Caro : Metius Cams, a * delator ' often mentioned by Pliny. 79. consideres. Lat. Prim. § 452 e. 80. (ix. 33.) A true and veracious History of a Dolphin that fell in Love. 3. super cenam : cf. 59. 23. 5. quid poetae cum fide. In another letter (v. 21. 6), to Caninius, Pliny makes a similar remark : * poetis mentiri licet.' 6. bistoriam scripturuB. As a matter of fact Caninius was engaged in writing the history of T...rajan's war against the Dacians. 18. BUbire, * take him on his back.' Lat. Prim. § 372. 23. mari Bimile, i.e. the lake and estuary. 27. inplicitat * ezpedltque, ' twines and untwines. ' 31. praebentem : sc. se. 40. incredibile. Pliny evidently had an uneasy kind of recollec- tion that his uncle had stated somewhere that 'dolphins die directly they touch land.' Cf. Plin. H. N. ix. 8. 7. 45. religione prava, * an absurd piece of superstition.' 46. cuius. The relative here simply connects two co-ordinated sentences [ = et eius).
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