The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 2

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H. G. Bohn, 1855 - Natural history - 544 pages
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Contents

The Lesser and the Greater Armenia
17
The rivers Cyrus and Araxes
18
Albania Iberia and the adjoining nations
20
The passes of the Caucasus
21
The islands of the Euxine
22
Nations in the vicinity of the Scythian Ocean
23
The Caspian and Hyrcanian Sea
24
Adiabene
27
Media and the Caspian Gates
28
Nations situate around the Hyrcanian Sea
30
The nations of Scythia and the countries on the Eastern Ocean
33
The Seres
37
The nations of India
38
The Ganges
43
The Indus
46
Taprobane
51
The Ariani and the adjoining nations
56
Voyages to India
60
Carmania
66
The Parthian Empire
68
Mesopotamia
73
Arabia
83
33 The Gulfs of the Red
91
Æthiopia
107
BOOK VII
117
Marvellous births
137
Of those who have been cut out of the womb
143
At what age generation ceases
150
Some account of the teeth and some facts concerning infants
157
Instances of remarkable acuteness of hearing
163
Union in the same person of three of the higbest qualities with
169
Precepte the most useful in life
178
Painting engraving on bronze marble and ivory carving
184
Ten very fortunate circumstances which have happened to
191
The misfortunes of Augustus
197
The variety of destinies at the birth of
203
Death
210
Burial
217
The things about which mankind first of all agreed The ancient
236
BOOK VIII
244
When elephants were first seen in Italy
251
The birth of the elephant and other particulars respecting
257
In what countries the elephant is found the antipathy of
259
The different species of lions
266
A man recognized and saved by a dragon
273
The terrestrial animals of India
280
The ichneumon
286
Prognostics of danger derived from animals
294
The chameleon
303
CHAP Page 55 The mice of Pontus and of the Alps
308
Hedgehogs ib 57 The leontophonus and the lynx
310
Vipers and snails
311
Lizards
312
The generation of the dog
316
The nature of the horse
317
The disposition of the horse remarkable facts concerning chariot horses
319
The generation of the horse
320
Mares impregnated by the wind
322
The nature of mules and of other beasts of burden
324
Oxen their generation
326
The Egyptian Apis
330
Sheep and their propagation
331
The different kinds of wool and their colours
333
Different kinds of cloth
336
The different shapes of sheep the musmon
338
Goats and their propagation
339
The hog
342
The wild boar who was the first to establish parks for wild animals
344
Animals in a halfwild state
346
Apes
347
81 The different species of hares
348
Animals which are tamed in part only
350
Places in which certain animals are not to be found
352
Animals which injure strangers only as also animals which injure the natives of the country only and where they are found
353
BOOK IX
358
The sea monsters of the Indian Ocean
359
The largest animals that are found in each ocean
361
The forms of the Tritons and Nereids The forms of seaelephants
362
The balæna and the orca
365
Whether fishes respire and whether they sleep
367
Dolphins
369
Human beings who have been beloved by dolphins
371
Places where dolphins help men to fish
374
Other wonderful things relating to dolphins
376
The tursio
377
Who first invented the art of cutting tortoiseshell
379
Those which are covered with hair or have none and how they bring forth Seacalves or phocæ
380
How many kinds of fish there are
381
Which of the fishes are of the largest size
382
Tunnies cordyla and pelamides and the various parts of them that are salted Melandrya apolecti and cybia
385
The lupus the asellus
399
The scarus the mustela
400
The various kinds of mullets and the sargus that attends them
401
Enormous prices of some fish
403
That the same kinds are not everywhere equally esteemed
404
Gills and scales
405
Fishes which have a voice Fishes without gills
406
Classification of fishes according to the shape of the body
407
The fins of fish and their mode of swimming
408
Eels
409
The murena ib 40 Various kinds of flat fish
411
The echeneis and its uses in enchantments
412
Fishes which change their colour
414
Fishes which fly above the waterthe seaswallowthe fish that shines in the nightthe horned fishthe seadragon
415
Fishes which have no blood Fishes known as soft fish
416
The sæpia the loligo the scallop
417
The nautilus or sailing polypus
419
The various kinds of polypi their shrewdness ib 49 The sailing nauplius
422
Seaanimals which are enclosed with a crust the crayfish
423
The various kinds of crabs the pinnotheres the sea urchin cockles and scallops
424
Various kinds of shellfish
428
What numerous appliances of luxury are found in the sea
429
CHAP Page 54 Pearls how they are produced and where
430
How pearls are found
433
The various kinds of pearls
434
Remarkable facts connected with pearlstheir nature
436
Instances of the use of pearls
437
The different kinds of purples
443
How wools are dyed with the juices of the purple
445
When purple was first used at Rome when the laticlave vestment and the prætexta were first worn
447
Fabrics called conchyliated
448
The amethyst the Tyrian the hysginian and the crimson tints
449
The pinna and the pinnotheres
450
The sensitiveness of wateranimals the torpedo the pastinaca the scolopendra the glanis and the ramfish
451
Bodies which have a third nature that of the animal and vegetable combined the seanettle
453
proofs that they are gifted with life by nature
454
Dogfish 71 Fishes which are enclosed in a stony shellseaanimals which
456
have no sensationother animals which live in the mud
458
Venomous seaanimals
459
The maladies of fishes
460
The generation of fishes
461
Fishes which are both oviparous and viviparous
465
Fishes the belly of which opens in spawning and then closes again
466
The longest lives known amongst fishes
467
Who was the first inventor of preserves for other fish
469
Who invented preserves for murenæ ib 82 Who invented preserves for seasnails
470
Landfishes
471
The mice of the Nile
472
IIow the fish called the anthias is taken
473
Seastars
474
The marvellous properties of the dactylus
475
BOOK X
478
The phenix
479
The different kinds of eagles
481
The natural characteristics of the eagle
484
CHAP Page 5 When the eagle was first used as the standard of the Roman legions
485
An eagle which precipitated itself on the funeral pile of a girl
486
The vultare ib 8 The birds called sangualis and immusulus
487
In what places hawks and men pursue the chase in company with each other
488
The only bird that is killed by those of its own kind A bird that lays only one egg
489
The kite
490
The raven
491
The horned owl
492
Birds which are born with the tail first
493
The owlet
494
Birds which have hooked talons
495
Who was the first to kill the peacock for food Who first taught the art of cramming them
496
How cocks are castrated A cock that once spoke
498
Who first taught us to use the liver of the goose for food
499
The Commagenian medicament
500
Cranes
501
Storks
502
Swans ib 33 Foreign birds which visit us the quail the glottis the cychramus and the otus
503
Swallows
505
Birds which remain with us throughout the year birds which remain with us only six or three months whitwalls and hoopoes
506
The Meleagrides
507
The various kinds of birds which afford omens by their note Birds which change their colour and their voice
509
The acanthyllis and other birds
515
The birds called apodes or cypseli
521
The mode of drinking with birds The porphyrio
527
Defects in broodhens and their remedies
535
The position of animals in the uterus
544
Salamanders
545
Animals which are born of beings that have not been born them selvesanimals which are born themselves but are not repro ductiveanimals which are ...
546
Which fishes have the best hearing
547
Diversities in the feeding of animals
548
Animals which live on poisons 93 Animals which live on earthanimals which will not die of ib hunger or thirst
549
Diversities in the drinking of animals
550
Instances of affection shown by serpents
552
What animals are subject to dreams
553

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