Natural History
quoted 9 times by 4 works · not held
Most often carried — quoted as a source. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
9 carried
1 neutral 1 refutedquoted by
4 works-
The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 5 citations · 6 passages
Pliny is explicitly cited as an authority in this paragraph, warranting a citation_quote event.
Cicero, in the 22d chapter of his second Book on Laws, speaks of the interment alone, which is now in use, as the most ancient method, and that, which is most congenial to nature, and in this he is followed by Pliny.
ch. 24 ¶ -
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum) Hugo Grotius 2 citations
Marks the citation act invoking Pliny's account of ancient 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.
ch. 9 ¶ -
Institutes of Roman Law Gaius 1 neutral 1 citation
Pliny is cited to identify the location of the Columna Maenia.
’ This advertisement was affixed to the Columna Maenia, which was in the forum on the Puteal near the Carcer.
ch. 116 ¶ -
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions Henry Sumner Maine 1 refuted 1 citation
The passage explicitly names and rejects Pliny's Natural History as a source of legend.
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.
ch. 3 ¶
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