BOOK I 



13 shown by famous examples ; significant pre-natal 

 indications of sex in the pregnant ; monstrous 

 births, cases of surgical delivery ; meaning of 

 vopiscus " ; human conception ; human generation ; 

 cases of Ukeness ; cases of very numerous progeny. 

 (xii) Age-hmit of procreation. (xiii) Exceptional 

 periods of pregnancy. (xiv) Theory of generation. 

 (xv) Investigation as to teeth ; as to infants. (xvi f.) 

 Instances of exceptional size. Premature births. 

 (xviii-xxiii) Bodily distinctions, exceptional strength, 

 remarkable speed, exceptional sight, marvellous 

 hearing, bodily endurance. (xxiv-xxvi) Memory, 

 mental vigour, clemency, magnanimity. (xxvii) 

 Supremely distinguished exploits. (xxviii— xxxi) 

 Three supreme virtues in the same person, supreme 

 innocence, supreme bravery, exceptional talents. 

 Who are the wisest men ? (xxxii) The most useful 

 rules of conduct. (xxxiii) Divination. (xxxiv-vi). 

 The man deemed the best, the most chaste matrons ; 

 instances of extreme piety. (xxxvii-ix) Cases of 

 eminence in the sciences and arts, astronomy, 

 philology, medicine, geometry, architecture, paint- 

 ing, sculpture in bronze, in marble, in ivory ; en- 

 graving. (xl— xlvi) Remarkable prizes of mankind ; 

 supreme happiness ; rarity of its continuance in 

 famiUes ; remarkable cases of change of fortune ; 

 twice proscribed ; remarkable cases of honours ; ten 

 supremely happy things in the case of a single person ; 

 misfortunes of his late Majesty Augustus. (xlvii f.) 

 Whom the gods have judged happiest; what man 

 they have commanded to be worshipped as a god in 

 his Ufetime. A remarkable flash of Ughtning. 

 (xUx) Cases of exceptional longevity. (1) Various 

 modes of birth. (U) Diseases in various cases. 



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