NH 2.7
Chiara Palladino / Pliny, Naturalis Historia
- Created on 2022-03-11 11:49:08
- Translated by H. Rackam, 1952
- Aligned by Chiara Palladino
Latin
English
esse innumeras ei effigies animalium rerumque cunctarum inpressas nec , ut in volucrum notamus ovis , levitate continua lubricum corpus , quod clarissimi auctores dixere , terrenorum argumentis indicatur , quoniam inde deciduis rerum omnium seminibus innumerae , in mari praecipue ac plerumque confusis monstrificae , gignantur effigies , praeterea visus probatione , alibi ursi , tauri alibi , alibi litterae figura , candidiore medio per verticem circulo .
Stamped
upon
it
are
countless
figures
of
animals
and
objects
of
all
kinds
-
it
is
not
the
case
,
as
has
been
stated
by
very
famous
authors
,
that
its
structure
has
an
even
surface
of
unbroken
smoothness
,
like
that
which
we
observe
in
birds
'
eggs
:
this
is
proved
by
the
evidence
of
the
facts
,
since
from
seeds
of
all
these
objects
,
falling
from
the
sky
in
countless
numbers
,
particularly
in
the
sea
,
and
usually
mixed
together
,
monstrous
shapes
are
generated
;
and
also
by
the
testimony
of
sight
-
in
one
place
the
figure
of
a
bear
,
in
another
of
a
bull
,
in
another
a
wain
,
in
another
a
letter
of
the
alphabet
,
the
middle
of
the
circle
across
the
pole
being
more
radiant
.