| 5 Famous Quotes by Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus)
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“Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best
fertilizer.
[Lat., Majores fertilissium is agro oculum domini esse dixerunt.]”
Agriculture Quotes Source: Historia Naturalis (XVIII, 84)
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“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.”
Poison Quotes Source: Natural History (bk. VII, ch. II), (Holland's translation)
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“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.”
Pheasants Quotes Source: Natural History (bk. X, ch. XLVIII), (Holland's translation)
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“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.”
Eating Quotes Source: Natural History (bk. XI, ch. LIII), (Holland's translation)
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“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.”
Navigation Quotes Source: Natural History (bk. II, ch. CIII), (Holland's translation)
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Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus) Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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