144 PLINY'S NATUBAL.IIISTOIIY. [Cook XXXIII. 



it necessary to annex the usual price of each commodity at 

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



. "Remedies, narratives, and observations, 

 thousand one hundred and twenty-live. 



AUTHORS QUOTKD. Doraitianus Ciesar, 27 Junius Grac- 

 chanus,* 1 L. PisOj Vc-rrius, 2 * 31. Varro,* Corvinus,- 7 Atticus 

 Pomponius, 2 * Calvus Licinius, 2 ' 1 * Cornelius Xepos, 30 Miu.-iunus, 31 

 Uocchus, 3 * Fetialiv 3 Feticstella, 91 Valerius Maximus, 36 Julius 

 liassus^ who wrote oil Medicine in Greek, ttextius [Niger 37 

 who did the same. 



. FOKEIGN AUTHORS QUOTED. Theophrastus, 79 Pemocrilus, 3 * 



22 In some MSS. the reading here is " Domitius/' and in others tlie 

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

 that the Emperor l)omitian 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 th greatest, masters. Jiillig 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 ami his 

 father, the Kmpcror Vespasian. 



3 lie is quoted in Chapter i) of this Book, where it nppetusthat betook 

 bis cognomen on account of his friendship lor C. (iracchus. He wrote a 

 "work, *' I>e Potestatibus," \vhich gave an account of the Uoman magistrates 

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

 highly esteemed by the ancients, are all that. r,'main. 



- 4 See end of B. ii. a * See end of B. iii. 2< "' Sec end of B. ii. 



27 Valerius MI srila Corvinus. See end of B. ix. " See end of B. vii. 



29 Calvus hicinius Macer was the son of C. Licinius Placer, :i person <,f 

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

 iiiitt-J suicide. We learn from our aiitlior, B. xxxiv. c. 00. that in IMH 

 youth he devottd himself to study with th' grat<st '/eal, and applied him- 

 Btlf with singular energy to intellectual pursuits. His i-on.stiiutroti, ho\v- 

 t ver, was early exhausted, and he died in his 3.5th or 30 th year, leaving 

 behind him twenty-one orations. We learn from Cicero ar.d 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 

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

 elegance. He wrote also some severe lampoons on Pompey and Cu'sar, 

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

 prose writers, make mention of him. 30 See end of B. iii 



31 See end of B. ii. 23 Cornelius Bocehus. Sec end of B. xvi. 



32 Annius or Ann.'eus Fetialis. See did of B. xvi. 



'* See end of Ii. viii. 35 See end of B. vii. 3C Sec end of B. xx. 



57 See end of B. iii. M See end of B. iii. 29 Sec cud of B. ii. 



