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Page 17
... Pliny the younger to Trajan . 99 1 But to return to our purpose . There belongs further to the handling of this part , touching the respective duties of voca- tions and professions , a relative or opposite doctrine touching the frauds ...
... Pliny the younger to Trajan . 99 1 But to return to our purpose . There belongs further to the handling of this part , touching the respective duties of voca- tions and professions , a relative or opposite doctrine touching the frauds ...
Page 28
... Pliny the younger using the license of heathen grandiloquence sets forth the virtue of Trajan , not as an imitation , but rather as a pattern of the divine , where he says , " That men needed not to make any other prayers to the gods ...
... Pliny the younger using the license of heathen grandiloquence sets forth the virtue of Trajan , not as an imitation , but rather as a pattern of the divine , where he says , " That men needed not to make any other prayers to the gods ...
Page 149
... covered with snow , periodical winds blow from that quarter at the time of the melt- ing of the snows . Herod . fi . 20. , and Pliny , v . 10 . 6. I judge also that from large marshes , which L 3 " HISTORIA VENTORUM . " 149.
... covered with snow , periodical winds blow from that quarter at the time of the melt- ing of the snows . Herod . fi . 20. , and Pliny , v . 10 . 6. I judge also that from large marshes , which L 3 " HISTORIA VENTORUM . " 149.
Page 150
... discovered as it is in the tides . Some writers sometimes specify a day , but it is rather by conjecture than constant observation . Pliny , ii . 47 , 48 . Attendant Winds . With reference to the 4th and 5th 150 TRANSLATION OF THE.
... discovered as it is in the tides . Some writers sometimes specify a day , but it is rather by conjecture than constant observation . Pliny , ii . 47 , 48 . Attendant Winds . With reference to the 4th and 5th 150 TRANSLATION OF THE.
Page 156
... Pliny observes that in large pastures shepherds should take care to drive their flocks to the north side , that they may feed opposite to the south . For if they feed opposite the north , they get foot - rot , scouring , and blear eyes ...
... Pliny observes that in large pastures shepherds should take care to drive their flocks to the north side , that they may feed opposite to the south . For if they feed opposite the north , they get foot - rot , scouring , and blear eyes ...
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