Examples of using Pliny in English and their translations into German
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Pliny spoke about the gardens of the Hesperides.
He is described by the scientist Pliny the Elder.
Pliny the younger, Suetonius, Tacitus are the first three.
The typical sardonyx has been alternately black, white,and red, for Pliny HN xxxvii.
One of our sources, Pliny(Nat, Hist v. 17), is in part the product of the imagination.
Early life and education==Alain Locke was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 13, 1885 to Pliny Ishmael Locke(1850-1892) and Mary Hawkins Locke 1853-1922.
The iaspis of Pliny was primarily a green stone(HN xxxvii 37), but he enumerates many other varieties.
As Spurgeon spoke on this subject he read from a letter by Pliny the Younger(61-112 A.D.) who wrote about the early Christians.
There was some confusion, however, between the'stone of Chalcedon' and the carchedonia(stone of Carthage),which was red Pliny, xxxvii 25, 30.
C. Raub:"How to coat objects with gold- Pliny, Leyden Papyrus X, Mappae Clavicula and Theophilus seen with a modern chemist's eyes.
There is no clear trace, even in the Mishna, of other spells of leaven,such as the lees of wine or those enumerated by Pliny Hist Nat xviii 26.
Description:"The fruit is not so precious," said Pliny,"as pointed out from his name, which derives from the fact that you eat just one.
The work of Trogus is lost;but the"prologi" or arguments of the text are preserved by Pliny and other writers.
Their ethnic origin is uncertain: Pliny says they were descendants of the Etruscans, but there are also clear signs of a relationship with the Celts.
I joined up and off we went. I had climbed down to where the statues were,when immediately my father said,'That is the Laocoon, which Pliny mentions.
The Latin name Eupatorium derives from the Greek eupatória,a medicine Pliny attributes to Mithridates VI Eupator, a king of Pontus who lived from 132 to 62 B. C.
Hermon, and in the neighborhood of the Dead Sea henceforth called Asphaltitis Limnē by Josephus[BJ IV. viii 4]and Lacus Asphaltites by Pliny HNV XV.15.
In ancient Egyptgreat proficiency was attained in its manufactory(Pliny, HN vii 56, Strabo, xxvii 41, Herod ii 182), and a flourishing trade was carried on Pr 7:16, Ezek 27: 7.
But'carbuncle'(from carbunculus, a small glowing coal) denotes a red or fiery stone, and can not correspond to the smaragdos,which was green Pliny, HN xxxvii, 16.
According to Pliny, the name Bryonia stems from the Greek bryo and bryéin, which mean«to grow» or«to sprout lushly» and which refer to the stalks that sprout rapidly and numerously from the root stock.
The master of Biella that twenty years ago gave birth to the factory“Cittadellarte” in theafternoon it was hosted by award“City of Como” Pliny the Elder to the library Como Via Vitani.
The Crusaders took it on as a symbol of strength and courage, Pliny recommended it as an antidote to the bites and headaches, while the Romans burned believing that the smoke would keep scorpions away.
Pliny the Elder already described in his natural history of 77 AD a Gallic mowing machine, which consisted of a front open box with gripping teeth, was pulled by a donkey over the field and through the rows of corn.
Mezzegra Lake Comois considered as a place of inspiration for centuries: Pliny and Manzoni used it as a retreat; but also the diversity of the Tremezzina area itself enchants with its finest plant species and unique olive groves.
Posidonius's attempts(according to Cleomedes) to determine the size of the sun are rather naive and make it difficultto understand that his astronomy was not ridiculed by authors like Cicero and Pliny who pretend to know the work of Hipparchus.
The Roman natural philosopher Pliny who lived in the 1st century AD wrote of peppermint that it stimulates appetite and that it should be bound into a crown around the head in order to stimulate mind and soul.
Published works==The focus of his work were studies of the ancient Latin grammarians("Grammatici latini", 8 volumes, 1855-1880) and critical editions involving the works ofCato the Elder, Varro and Pliny the Younger.
The Roman historian Pliny the Elder says that the cherry is the birthplace of the Turkish Black Sea city Kerasunda from which the Roman general Lucullus after his victory over King Mithridates of Pontus brought the cherry tree.
The surviving work,"De medicina praecepta", in 1115 hexameters,contains a number of popular remedies, borrowed from Pliny and Dioscorides, and various magic formulae, amongst others the famous Abracadabra, as a cure for fever and ague.
Hypericum has been used for thousands of years, due to its medicinal properties: Hippocrates used this plant as an anti-inflammatory remedy; Dioscorides cited it in his encyclopaedia on medicinal plants and remedies,as did Galen and Pliny in their works 3.