All episodes of Natural History Volume 3, The by Pliny the Elder

16 - Book 13, Chapters 10 - 27: The trees of Syria: the pistacia, the cottana, the damascena and the myma; the cedar; the terebinth; the sumach tree; the trees of Egypt; the fig-tree of Alexandria; the fig tree of Cyprus; the carob tree; the Persian tre

Published 11/14/21

17 - Book 13, Chapters 28 - 34: The trees of Aethiopia; the trees of Mount Atlas; the citrus and the tables made of the wood there of; the points that are desirable or otherwise in these tables; the citron-tree; the lotus; the trees of Cyrenaica; the pa

Published 11/14/21

Natural History Volume 3, The by Pliny the Elder (23 - 79)

Published 01/26/13

01 - Book 11, Chapters 1-9 : The extreme smallness of insects; whether insects respire and whether they have blood; the bodies of insects; bees; the order displayed in the work of bees(..); persons who have made bees their study

Published 01/26/13

02 - Book 11, Chapter 10 - 17: The mode in which bees work; drones; the qualities of honey; (...); the reproduction of bees; the mode of government by the bees

Published 01/26/13

03 - Book 11, Chapters 18 - 29: Happy omens sometimes afforded by a swarm of bees; the various kinds of bees; the diseases of bees; (...) wasps and hornets; the silk-worm; (...); spiders; the generation of spiders

Published 01/26/13

04 - Book 11, Chapters 30 - 38: Scorpions; the grasshopper; the wings of insects; the beetle; the glow-worm; other kinds of beetles; locusts; ants; the chrysalis

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05 - Book 11, Chapters 39 - 57: Insects that are parasites of man; an animal which has no passage for the evacuations; moths, cantharides, gnats; (...); the various kinds of horns; animals in which they are moveable; the heads of animals; those which ha

Published 01/26/13

06 - Book 11, Chapters 58 - 73: The cheeks; the nostrils; the mouth; the lips; the chin; the teeth (...); the tongue; the tonsils; the neck; the throat; the dorsal spine; the throat; the stomach; the heart; the blood; the vital spirit (...); the lungs;

Published 01/26/13

07 - Book 11, Chapters 74 - 92 :The gall; the properties of the gall; the diaphragm; the nature of laughter; the belly; animals which have no belly; the small guts (...); the spleen; the kidneys; the greast; the ribs; the bladder; the womb; animals whic

Published 01/26/13

08 - Book 11, Chapters 93 - 108: The hide of animals; the hair and the covering of the skin; te paps; birds that have paps; the milk; cheese; various kinds of cheese; the fingers; the arms; the nails; the knees and the hams; varicose veins; the gait, th

Published 01/26/13

09 - Book 11, Chapters 109 - 119:The sexual parts; hermaphrodites; the testes; the tails of animals; the different voices of animals; superfluous limbs; respiration and nutriment; reasons for indigestion; from what causes corpulence arises and how it ma

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10 - Book 12, Chapters 1 - 13:The honourable place occupied by trees in the system of nature; the early history of trees; exotic trees; the plane-tree; (...) the trees of India; (...) Indian trees, the names of which are unknown; Indian trees which bear

Published 01/26/13

11 - Book 12, Chapters 14 - 28: The pepper-tree; the various kinds of pepper; Caryophyllon, lycion and the Chironian pyxacanthus; macir; sugar; (...) trees of Persis; trees of the islands of the Persian sea; the cotton tree; (...) amomum, amomis

Published 01/26/13

12 - Book 12, Chapters 29 - 42: Cardamomum; the country of frankincense; the trees that bear frankincense; various kinds of frankincense; myrrh; the trees that produce myrrh; the nature and various kinds of myrrh; mastich; ladanum and stobolon; enhaemo

Published 01/26/13

13 - Book 12, Chapters 43 - 63: Cassia; cancamum and tarum; serichatum and gabalium; myrobalanum; phoenicobalanus; the sweet-scented calamus; the sweet-scented rush; hammoniacum; sphagnos; cypros; asphalatos; maron; balsamum, opobalsamum and xylobalsamu

Published 01/26/13

14 - Book 13, Chapters 1 - 5:Unguents: at what period they were first introduced; the various kinds of unguents; diaspa, magma, the modes of testing unguents; the excess to which luxury has run in unguents; when unguents were first used by the Romans

Published 01/26/13

15 - Book 13, Chapters 6 - 9: The palm tree; the nature of the palm tree; how the palm tree is planted; the different varieties of palm trees and their characteristics

Published 01/26/13

16 - Book 13, Chapters 10 - 27: The trees of Syria: the pistacia, the cottana, the damascena and the myma; the cedar; the terebinth; the sumach tree; the trees of Egypt; the fig-tree of Alexandria; the fig tree of Cyprus; the carob tree; the Persian tre

Published 01/26/13

17 - Book 13, Chapters 28 - 34: The trees of Aethiopia; the trees of Mount Atlas; the citrus and the tables made of the wood there of; the points that are desirable or otherwise in these tables; the citron-tree; the lotus; the trees of Cyrenaica; the pa

Published 01/26/13

18 - Book 13, Chapters 35 - 52: The trees of Asia and Greece; the tragion; tragacanthe; the tragos or scorpio; the euonymos; the tree called eon; (...) the royal thorn; the trees and shrubs of the Mediterranean; the sea bryon; plants of the red sea; p

Published 01/26/13

19 - Book 14, Chapters 1 - 4: The nature of the vine; its mode of fructification; the nature of the grape and the cultivation of the vine; ninety-one varieties of the vine

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20 - Book 14, Chapters 5 - 9: Remarkable facts connected with the culture of the vine; the most ancient wines; the nature of wines; fifty kinds of generous wines; thirty-eight varieties of foreign wines

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21 - Book 14, Chapters 10 - 23: Seven kinds of salted wines; eighteen varieties of sweet wines; at what period generous wines were first commonly made in Italy; the inspection of wine ordered by king Romulus; wines drunk by the ancient Romans; some rem

Published 01/26/13

22 - Book 14, Chapters 24 - 29: How must is usually prepared; pitch and resin; vinegar; wine vessels; wine cellars; drunkenness; liquors with the strength of wine made from water and corn; authors quoted

Published 01/26/13