PLINY: NATURAL HISTORY 



qui adulterio Aethiopis nata matre nihil a ceteris 

 colore differente ipse avum regeneravit Aethiopem. 



52 Simihtudinum quidem inmensa reputatio est et in 

 qua credantur multa fortuita pollere, visus, auditus 

 memoriae ^ haustaeque imagines sub ipso conceptu. 

 cogitatio etiam utriuslibet animum subito transvolans 

 effingere simihtudinem aut miscere existimatur, 

 ideoque plures in homine quam in ceteris omnibus 

 animahbus differentiae quoniam velocitas cogita- 

 tionum animique celeritas et ingeni varietas multi- 

 formes notas inprimunt,^ cum ceteris animaiitibus 

 inmobiles sint animi et siiniles omnibus singuhsque 



53 in suo cuique genere. Antiocho regi Syriae e plebe 

 nomine Artenio in tantum simihs fuit ut Laodice 

 coniunx regia necato iam Antiocho mimum per eum 

 commendationis regnique successionis peregerit. 

 Magno Pompeio \'ibius quidam e plebe et Pubhcius 

 etiam ser\itute hberatus indiscreta prope specie 

 fuere similes, ihud os probum reddentes ipsumque 



54 honorem eximiae frontis. quahs causa patri ciuoque 

 eius Menogenis coci sui cognomen inposuit (iam 

 Strabonis a specie oculorum habenti vitium imi- 

 tata et in servo), Scipioni Serapionis — is erat suarii 



* Backhain : memoria. 



* Mayhojf : imprimit aul imprimat. 



" Or pcrhaps ' the rost of her family,' or ' othor half-breedfl.' 

 * Antioehua III, theGreat, 223-187 B.c. Valeriiis Maximus, 

 IX. 14, says that the king'9 mimic was a member of the 

 royal family. and that he pretended to be the king lying ill 

 in bed and the pubhc were admitted to 8oe him ; so Laodice 

 securexl acceptance for her ston,' that the king on hia death- 

 bed had coramended her and his children to the protection 

 of the peopie. 

 ' ' Croas-eyed.' 



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