466 PLINY'S NATURAL IIISTOHT. [Dock XXXVII. 



namon, 4 cassia, 5 and amomum ; 6 that arc yielded by the juices 

 of trees or of shrubs, amber, 7 opobalsamum, 6 myrrh/ and frank- 

 incense; 10 that are found in the roots of trees, the perfumes 

 derived from cost us. 11 The most valuable products furnished 

 by living animals, on land, are the teeth of elephants; by 

 animals in the sea, tortoise-shell ; by the coverings of animals, 

 the skins which the Seres 12 dye, and the substance gathered 

 from the hair of the she-gouts -of Arabia, which we have 

 spoken of under the name of '' ladanum ;" 13 by creatures that 

 are common to both land and sea, the purple 11 of the inurux. 

 ^Vith reference to the birds, beyond plumes for warriors' hel- 

 mets, and the grease that is derived from the geese of Comma- 

 gene, 15 I find no remarkable product mentioned. We must 

 not omit, too, to observe, that gold, for which there is such a 

 mania with all mankind, hardly holds the tenth rank as an 

 object of value, and silver, with which we purchase gold, 

 hardly the twentieth! 



HAIL to thee, Nature, thou parent of all tilings! and do 

 thou deign to show thy favour unto me, who, alone of all tho 

 citizens of Home, have, in thy every department, 16 thus mado 

 knu\vn thy praise. 17 



SUMMARY. Facts, narratives, and observations, one thousand 

 three hundred. 



N AUTHORS QUOTKD. M. Varro, 18 tho Kegister of the 

 Triumphs, 1 " Maecenas, 20 lacchus,- 1 Cornelius Bocchus." 



FOUEICN AUTHORS QUOTKD. King Juba, 23 Xenocratcs 24 the 



4 See B. xii. c. 42. 5 S^c B. xii. c. 13. Sec B. xii. c. 23. 



7 See Chapter 11 of this Book. S<e B. xii. c. 64. 



* S.-e B. xit. c. 33. 10 See B. xii. c. 30. Sec B. xii. c. 25. 



12 Ste B. xxxiv. c. 41. 3 In B. xii. c. 37, and B. xxvi. c. ,",0. 



* Sec B. ix. cc, GO, 61 1* See 1J. x. c. 28, and 15. xxix. c. lo. 



16 *' Nmmris omnibus." 



' Bfntbartir, (Jrnmirlss tJ. 7?t/'/^. TM. p. CM, lias c-xpnpsed an opinion 

 thrtt there is still scuuo dcfivicnry af'trr tbof-oncluding w<rls, * tuis lave ;'* 

 notwithttantling the comparative completeness of the n .stored text 51?* 

 gi\vn hy tlie n.ituherj,' >j.S. 



' Se'e rnd of B. ii. Seo end of B. v. 20 t . c nu \ O f \\ ; x . 



" So nd ..C B. x .\\ii. 22 jj u . cn j O f u. xv,^ 23 Soc t . U(1 of u t v> 



21 Ste cud oi' U x\\iii. 



