144 PLr^^^'s NATUEAL HISTOET. [Book XXXIII. 



it necessary to annex the usual price of each commodity at 

 Home, in order to give some idea of their relative values. 



SuMMAET. — Remedies, narratives, and observations, one 

 thousand one hundred and twenty-five. 



Roman Authors quoted. — Domitianus Cassar," Junius Grac- 

 chanus,^' L. Piso,-^ Yerrius,^^ M. Varro,^^ Corvinus,-'' Atticus 

 Pomponius,*^ Calvus Licinius,-^ Cornelius ISrepos,^^ Mucianus,^^ 

 Rocchus,^^ retialis,^^ Fenestella,^* Valerius Maximus,^" Julius 

 Rassus^^ who wrote on Medicine in Greek, Sextius Niger^^ 

 who did the same. 



Foreign Authoes quoted. — Theophrastus,^^ Democritus,^^ 



22 In some MSS. the reading here is *' Doraitius," and in others the 

 name is omitted altogether. We learn from the writings of Suetonius, 

 that the Emperor Domitian devoted himself to literary pursuits in his 

 younger days, and Quintilian and the younger Pliny speak of his poetical 

 productions as equal to those of the greatest masters. Sillig expresses an 

 opinion that Pliny may possibly have borrowed something from his works, 

 and inserted his name, with a view of pleasing the young prince and his 

 father, the Emperor Vespasian. 



23 He is quoted in Chapter 9 of this Book, where it appears that he took 

 his cognomen on account of his friendship for C. Gracchus. He wrote a 

 work, " De Potestatibus," which gave an account of the Eoman magistrates 

 from the time of the kings. A few fragments of this work, which was 

 highlv esteemed bv the ancients, are all that remain. 



21 See end of B.' ii. 25 See end of B. iii. 26 See end of B. ii. 



2^ Valerius Messala Corvinus. See end of B. ix. 28 g^^g end of B. vii. 



29 Calvus Licinius Macer was the son of C. Licinius Macer, a person of 

 praetorian rank, who, on being impeached of extortion by Cicero, com- 

 mitted suicide. We learn from our author, B. xxxiv. c. .50, that in his 

 youth he devoted himself to study with the greatest zeal, and applied him- 

 self with singular energy to intellectual pursuits. His constitution, how- 

 ever, was early exhausted, and he died in his 3oth or 36th year, leaving 

 behind him twenty-one orations. We learn from Cicero and Quintilian 

 that his compositions were carefully moulded after the models of the Attic 

 school, but were deficient in ease and freshness. As a poet he was the 

 author of many short pieces, equally remarkable for their looseness and 

 elegance. He wrote also some severe lampoons on Pompey and Caesar, 

 and tlieir respective partisans. Ovid and Horace, besides several of the 

 prose writers, make mention of him. ^'^ See end of B. ii. 



2' See end of B. ii. 22 Cornelius Bocchus. See end of B. xvi. 



23 Annius or Annseus Fetialis. See end of B. xvi. 



2* See end of B. viii. 35 gee end of B. vii. 36 ggg end of B. xx. 



3' bee end of B. xii. 38 ggg end of B. iii. 39 gee end of B. ii. 



