3461 De Lapidibus.
3462 He alludes to petrified shells, most probably.
3464 “Nature;” i.e. “works of Nature.”
3465 “Lenticula.” Like a lentil in shape.
3466 Substituting garnets for rubies, as an illustration.
3468 Lest the deception should be commonly practised. Seneca, Epist. 19, mentions one Democritus, who had discovered the art of making artificial Emeralds. See further on this subject, Beckmann, Hist. Inv. Vol. 1. p. 124. Bohn’s Edition.
3469 Ten in the morning.
3471 We can only guess at the meaning of this passage, as it is acknowledgedly corrupt.
3473 See Chapter 15 of this Book. Ajasson thinks that he has here confounded two different substances, powdered emery and diamond dust.
3474 See B. iv. c. 26.
3475 “Trigariis.” “Three-horse chariot races,” literally. See B. xxviii. c. 72, and B. xxix. c. 5.
3476 It having been in recent times declared unlawful to work them, as he has already informed us.
3477 “Quacunque ambitur mari.” With these words the Natural History of Pliny terminates in all the former editions. M. Ian was the first among the learned to express a suspicion that the proper termination of the work was wanting; an opinion in which Sillig coincided, and which was happily confirmed, in the course of time, by the discovery of the Bamberg MS., the only copy of the Natural History (or rather the last Six Books) in which the concluding part of this Chapter has been found.
3478 See B. xix. c. 7.
3483 “Coccum.” See B. xvi. c. 12, and B. xxiv. c. 4.
3484 See B. xix. c. 15, and B. xxii. c. 49.
3485 See B. xii. c. 26.
3486 See B. vi. c. 20, and B. xii. c. 1.
3487 See B. xiii. c. 29, and B. xv. c. 7.
3488 See B. xii. c. 42.
3489 See B. xii. c. 43.
3490 See B. xii. c. 28.
3492 See B. xii, c. 54.
3493 See B. xii. c. 33.
3494 See B. xii. c. 30.
3495 See B. xii. c. 25.
3497 In B. xii. c. 37, and B. xxvi. c. 30.
3498 See B. ix. cc. 60, 61.
3499 See B. x. c. 28, and B. xxix. c. 13.
3500 “Numeris omnibus.”
3501 Bernhardy, Grundriss d. Röm. Lit. p. 644, has expressed an opinion that there is still some deficiency after the concluding words, “tuis fave;” notwithstanding the comparative completeness of the restored text as given by the Bamberg MS.
3502 See end of B. ii.
3503 See end of B. v.
3504 See end of B. ix.
3506 See end of B. xvi.
3507 See end of B. v.
3510 See end of B. x.
3511 A Dithyrambic poet, a native of Cythera, or, according to some, of Heraclea in Pontus. During the latter part of his life he resided at the court of the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Sicily, and died B.C. 380, at the age of 55. Of his poems, only a few fragments are left.
3512 One of the great Tragic Poets of Greece, born at Salamis B.C. 480. Of his Tragedies, eighteen are still extant, out of seventy-five, or, according to some accounts, ninety-two, which he originally wrote.
3513 See end of B. viii.
3514 Nothing positive seems to be known of this author, who is mentioned in Chapters 11, 24, and 25 of the present Book as having written on Precious Stones. It is possible that he may have been the architect mentioned in B. xxxvi. c. 14. Hardouin would identify him with a Comic writer of Olynthus, of this name.
3515 See end of B. iii.
3516 See end of B. xii.
3517 See end of B. x.
3518 A Roman senator, who wrote a work on Fishing, in 26 Books, one on Hydromancy or aquatic divination, and other works connected with history. It is probably from a work of his, “On Rivers,” that Plutarch quotes. See Chapters 11 and 23 of the present Book.
3519 Author of a “Periplus,” and of a poem “on the Fabulous forms of Men,” both mentioned by Tzetzes. See Chapters 11, 23, 24, and 51 of this Book.
3522 See end of B. ii.
3523 See end of B. iv.
3524 A writer on Stones, of this name, is also mentioned by Plutarch and Stobæus, but no further particulars are known of him. He is mentioned in Chapter 11 of this Book.
3525 Mentioned also in Chapter 11 of this Book. A person of this name is quoted by the Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius as the author of a work on Libya; from which he is supposed to have been a native of Africa.
3526 Beyond the mention made of him in Chapter 11 of this Book, as a contemporary of Pliny, no further particulars are known.
3527 A native of Patara in Lycia, who wrote a Description of the Earth, and a collection of the Oracles given at Delphi. See Chapter 11 of this Book.
3528 Beyond the mention made of him in Chapter 11 of this Book, nothing relative to this writer seems to be known.
3529 See end of B. ii.
3530 Mithridates VI., Eupator, or Dionysus, King of Pontus, and the great adversary of the Romans, commonly known as Mithridates the Great. His notes and Memoirs were brought to Rome by Pompey, who had them translated into Latin by his freedman Pompeius Lenæus. See end of B. xiv.: also B. vii. c. 24, B. xxiii. c. 77, B. xxv. cc. 3, 27, 79, B. xxxiii. c. 54, and Chapters 5 and 11 of the present Book.
3531 See end of B. xxi.
3532 See end of B. viii.
3533 From the mention made of him in Chapters 12 and 25 of this Book, we may conclude that he was a writer on Precious Stones.
3534 See end of B. ii.
3535 From the mention of him in Chapters 23 and 28 of this Book, he appears to have been a writer on Precious Stones.
3536 Probably the physician of Miletus, sometimes called Olympiacus, who, according to Galen, belonged to the sect of the Methodici, and lived in the first century after Christ. Galen speaks of him as “a frivolous person.”
3537 See Cornelius Alexander, end of B. iii.
3538 See end of B. xxx.
3539 See end of B. xxix.
3540 See end of B. xviii.