BOOK I 



(lii-lvi) Death; cases of the dead coming to life 

 again ; instances of sudden death ; burial ; ghosts ; 

 the soul. (Ivii— Ix) Discoveries in Hfe ; matters on 

 which there was the earhest agreement of the races ; 

 ancient Hterature ; date of earHest barbers, earHest 

 time-pieces. Total : 747 facts, investigations and 

 observations. 



Authorities : Verrius Flaccus, Gnaeus GelHus, 

 Lieinius Mucianus, Masurius Sabinus, Agrippina 

 wife of Claudius, Marcus Cicero, Asinius PolHo, 

 Marcus Varro, Messala Rufus, CorneHus Nepos, 

 Virgil, Livy, Cordus, MeHssus, Sebosus, CorneHus 

 Celsus, Valerius Maximus, Trogus, Nigidius Figulus, 

 Pomponius Atticus, Pcdianus Asconius, Fabianus, 

 Cato the Censor, Official Records, Fabius VestaHs. 

 Foreign authorities : Herodotus, Aristeas, Baeton, 

 Isigonus, Crates, Agatharchides, CaHiphanes, Aris- 

 totle,Nymphodorus, ApoHonides, Phylarchus, Damon, 

 Megasthenes, Ctesias, Tauron, Eudoxus, Onesicritus, 

 CHtarchus, Duris, Artemidorus, the medical authors 

 Hippocrates and Asclepiades, Hesiod, Anacreon, 

 Theopompus, HeHanicus, Damastes, Ephorus, Epi- 

 genes, Berosus, Petosiris, Nechepsus, Alexander the 

 Learned, Xenophon, CaHimachus, Democritus, the 

 historian DiyHus, Strato's Reply to Ephorus's 

 ' Heuremata,' HeracHdes of Pontus, the Tragoediimcna 

 of Asclepiades, Pliilostephanus, Hegesias, Arche- 

 machus, Thucydides, Mnesigiton, Xenagoras, Metro- 

 dorus of Scepsis, AnticHdes, Critodemus. 



Book VHL Contents : (i-xi) Elephants, their 

 sense ; when first harnessed ; their dociHty ; remark- 

 able achievements of ; instinctive sense of dangers in 

 wild animals ; elephants, when first seen in Italy ; 

 fights between elephants ; modes of capture ; modes 



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