By Pliny
Pliny the Elder, tireless researcher and author, is writer of the encyclopedic Natural History, in 37 books, an unequalled compendium of Roman wisdom. The contents of the books are as follows. booklet 1: desk of contents of the others and of experts; 2: mathematical and metrological survey of the universe; 3-6: geography and ethnography of the recognized global; 7: anthropology and the body structure of guy; 8-11: zoology; 12-19: botany, agriculture, and horticulture; 20-27: plant items as utilized in medication; 28-32: scientific zoology; 33-37: minerals (and medicine), the positive arts, and gemstones.
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Its occupants have been Oscans, Greeks, Umbrians, Tuscans and Campanians. On the coast are the river Saove, the town of Volturno with the river of the same name, Liternum, the Chalcidian colony of Ciunae, Miseno, the port of Baiae, Bacolo, the Lucrine lake, Lake Averno near which fonnerly stood the to^^Ti of Cimmerium, then PozzuoH, formerly called the Colony of Dicaearchus after which come the plains of Salpatara and the Lago di Fusaro near Cumae. On the coast stands Naples, itself also a colony of the Chalcidians, named Parthenope from the tomb of one of the Sirens, Herculaneum, Pompei with Mount Vesuvius in view not far off and watered by the river Sarno, the Nucerian territory and nine miles from the sea Nocera itself, and Sorrento with the promontory of Minerva that once was the abode in this valley hills — ; 47 Campania.
Flucns, navium quem appellavere Subi, Valentia colonia colonia Romanorum oppidum civium flumen amnis navigabili Cantabris capax, stipendiarium, quondam oppidum, Contestaniae Edetania amoeno praetendente se et Saguntura Hiberus in unde Icositani. mari rcmota, flumen Turium, et tantundem nobile, fide Ilici, contribuuntiu- mox Latinorum Lucentum, Dianium Sucro fluvius 21 ; reliqua p. traiectus. flumen Tader, colonia inmunis in ora Urci, Contestania, Carthago deinde cuius a promunturio 20 proxima orae Barea, regio Bastitania, Bacticae regio commercio oppido Ilergaonum, dives, ortus luliobrica, per per cctx a Vareia oppido propter universam Hispaniam Graeci Ilibcriam.
The first people, on the coast, are the Bastuli, and after them in the following order proceeding inland come the Mentesani, the Qretani, the Carpetani a treaty 17 DUtricts. NATURAL HLSTORY PLINY: Tagum Carpetani, iuxta eos Vaccaei, Vettones et adscriptumque mox oppida Arevaci. Celtiberi Nova colonia, quod Saturni vocatur Caesaream Mauretaniae urbcm cxxxxxvii sinus Ilicitanus in eam regio finis. stagno, ad fn p. a a mari recedens. Celtiberos Udiva. haut procul ccccL p. flucns, navium quem appellavere Subi, Valentia colonia colonia Romanorum oppidum civium flumen amnis navigabili Cantabris capax, stipendiarium, quondam oppidum, Contestaniae Edetania amoeno praetendente se et Saguntura Hiberus in unde Icositani.