The Naturalist's Library, Vol. 9 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Naturalist's Library, Vol. 9

The life of at of most men whose days are spent in study and retirement, is meagre of incident. Although he appears to have travelled over a great part of Europe in the service of the state; to have visited Africa, and perhaps Egypt and Palestine, yet no record of these adventures has been preserved; and had it not been for the occasional notices that occur in his own writings, and especially the information respecting his private habits and li terary labours, contained in the Epistles of his ne phew and namesake, Pliny the Younger, posterity would have known nothing of the biography of this great historian of Nature, except the era in which he flourished, the works he produced, and the re markable circumstances attending his death. Of the different accounts of this illustrious author which we possess, the most ancient is that ascribed to Susto nius, - the most ample is given by Count Rezzonico.

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