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Letter "P" » Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus)
"Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best
fertilizer.
[Lat., Majores fertilissium is agro oculum domini esse dixerunt.]"
Author: Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus)
About: Agriculture
"Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no
more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of
many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But
sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that."
Author: Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus)
About: Eating
"And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and
therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt and sprinkle it
abroad with their mouthes because it dulceth and allaieth the
unpleasant nature thereof, and carrieth a light with it."
Author: Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus)
About: Navigation
"The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were
consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as
they list."
Author: Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus)
About: Pheasants
"All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for
if it be true that is reported, they will no better abide the
touching with man's spittle than scalding water cast upon them:
but if it happed to light within their chawes or mouth,
especially if it come from a man that is fasting, it is present
death."
Author: Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus)
About: Poison
Pages: 1
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