Natural History

1. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 5 authority · 1 neutral 6 citations · 7 passages

   ch. 9 · ch. 12 · ch. 15 · chapter xii.: on contracts. · ch. 24 2 passages anchored here · ch. 33

   Explicitly named and quoted in paraphrase as naturalist evidence.

   There is a passage in Pliny, which will serve for an explanation of this, he says that the fiercest lions do not fight with each other, nor do serpents bite serpents.

2. The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum) Hugo Grotius 2 authority 2 citations

   ch. 9 · ch. 12

   Pliny's account is cited as authority for the ancient itinerary and trade with India.

   Ab Arabico autem sinu ad Indiam, Indicique Oceani insulas, et auream usque Chersonesum, quam esse Iapanem credunt plerique, etiam re Romana florente navigari solitum, iter a Plinio descriptum, legationes ab Indis ad Augustum, ad Claudium etiam ex Taprobane insula, deinde gesta Traiani et tabulae Ptolemaei satis ostendunt.

3. Institutes of Roman Law Gaius 1 neutral 1 citation

   ch. 116

   Pliny's Natural History is cited as the source locating the Columna Maenia.

   ’ This advertisement was affixed to the Columna Maenia, which was in the forum on the Puteal near the Carcer.

4. Lectures on the Early History of Institutions Henry Sumner Maine 1 refuted 1 citation

   ch. 3

   Explicitly cited and criticized as a source of unreliable material.

   But the source of at all events a part of the absurdities which have clustered round the subject I take to be the Natural History of Pliny, and they seem to belong to those stories about plants and animals to which may be traced a great deal of the nonsense written in the world.

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