Author: Pliny the Elder

Cited by

• Anthony Doerr (1)
  • IN: Four Seasons in Rome (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Rain falls, clouds rise, rivers dry up, hailstorms sweep down; rays scorch, and impinging from every side on the earth in the middle of the world, then are broken and recoil and carry with them the moisture they have drunk up. Steam falls from on high and again returns on high. Empty winds sweep down, and then go back again with their plunder. So many living creatures draw their breath from the upper air; but the air strives in the opposite direction, and the earth pours back breath to the sky as if to a vacuum. Thus as nature swings to and fro like a kind of sling, discord is kindled by the velocity of the world’s motion.
    FROM: The Natural History, (77), Book, Italy
• Christopher & Kovite, Gavin Robinson (1)
  • IN: War of the Encyclopaedists (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Nec dubitamus multa esse quae et nos praeterierinst, homines enim sumus et occupati officiis... (Nor do we doubt that many things have escaped us also, for we are but human, and beset with duties...)
    FROM: The Original Encyclopedia, (77), Book, Italy
• Rick Yancey (1)
  • IN: The Monstrumologist (2009) Gothic Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is said that the Blemmyae have no heads and that their mouth and eyes are put in their chests.
    FROM: Naturalis Historiae, (75), Book, Italy