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PLINY'S NATURAL HISTORY. [Book XVIII. 



Hyginus, 38 Virgil, 39 Trogus, 40 Ovid, 41 Groecinus, 42 Columella, 43 

 Tubero, 44 L. Tarutius, 45 who wrote in Greek on the Stars, 

 Cassar 46 the Dictator, who wrote upon the Stars, Sergius 

 Paulas, 47 Sabinus Fabian us, 48 M. Cicero, 49 Calpurnius Bassus, 50 

 Ateius Capito, 51 Mamilius Sura, 52 Attius, 63 who wrote the 

 Praxidica. 



FOREIGN ATJTHOHS QUOTED. Hesiod, 54 Theophrastus, 55 Aris- 

 totle, 56 Democritus, 57 King Hiero, 58 King Attalus Philometor, 5 * 

 King Archelaiis, 60 Arcliytas, 61 Xenophon, 6 ' Amphilochus 63 , of 



38 See end of B. iii. 39 See end of B. vii. 



40 See end of B. vii. 



41 A native of Sulmo, in the country of the Peligni, and one of the 

 greatest poets of the Augustan age. It is most probable that his " Fasti" 

 was extensively consulted by Pliny in the compilation of the present Book. 

 Six Books of the Fasti have come down to us, but the remaining six have 

 perished, if, indeed, they were ever written, which has been doubted by 

 many of the learned. 



42 See end of B. xiv. See end of B. viii. 



44 See end of B. ii. It is supposed that there were several writers of 

 this name, but it is impossible to say with certainty which of them is the 

 one here referred to. It is probable, however, that it is either L. ^Elius 

 Tubero, the friend of Cicero, or else Q, -ZElius Tubero, his son, that is 

 alluded to. 



45 L. Tarutius Firmianus, a mathematician and astronomer, and a 

 friend and contemporary of Cicero and M. Varro. At the request of the 

 latter, he took the horoscope of Romulus. It is generally supposed that 

 he was of Etruscan descent. 



46 The founder of the imperial dignity at Rome. His Commentaries 

 are the only work written by him that has come down to us. His trea- 

 tise on the Stars, which Pliny frequently quotes throughout this Book, 

 was probably written under the inspection of the astronomer, Sosigenes. 



47 See end of B. ii. 



48 Nothing is known of tin's writer. It has been suggested, however, 

 that he may have been the same person as Papirius Fabianus, mentioned 

 at the end of B. ii. 



49 See end of B. vii. 50 See end of B. xvi. 

 51 See end of B. iii. See end of B. x. 



53 L. Accius, or Attius, an early Roman tragic poet, and the son of a 

 freedman, born about B.C. 170. His tragedies were chiefly imitations from 

 the Greek. He is highly praised by Cicero. The "Praxidica" here men- 

 tioned, is probably the same as the " Pragmatica" spoken of by Aulus 

 Gellius, B. xx. c. 3. Only some fragments of his Tragedies are left. 



51 See end of B. vii. 55 See end of B. iii. 



56 See end of B. ii. 57 See end of B. ii. 



58 See end of B. viii. 59 See end of B. viii. 



60 See end of B. viii. G1 See end of B. viii. 



83 See end of B. iv. 63 See end of B. viii. 



