NH 2.1
Chiara Palladino / Pliny, Naturalis Historia
- Created on 2022-03-11 11:18:01
- Translated by John Bostock, 1855
- Aligned by Chiara Palladino
The translation comes from the Perseus Digital Library. The Latin text is the revised version in Lacus Curtius.
Latin
English
Mundum et hoc quodcumque nomine alio caelum appellare libuit , cuius circumflexu degunt cuncta , numen esse credi par est , aeternum , inmensum , neque genitum neque interiturum umquam . huius extera indagare nec interest hominum nec capit humanae coniectura mentis .
The
world
,
and
whatever
that
be
which
we
otherwise
call
the
heavens
,
by
the
vault
of
which
all
things
are
enclosed
,
we
must
conceive
to
be
a
Deity
,
to
be
eternal
,
without
bounds
,
neither
created
,
nor
subject
,
at
any
time
,
to
destruction
.
To
inquire
what
is
beyond
it
is
no
concern
of
man
,
nor
can
the
human
mind
form
any
conjecture
respecting
it
.