By Pliny, H. Rackham
Pliny the Elder, tireless researcher and author, is writer of the encyclopedic ordinary heritage, 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 specialists; 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 high quality arts, and gem stones. The Loeb Classical Library variation of usual heritage is in ten volumes.
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Origin of the term ment of one man's property in the reign of Servius was 120,000 as-pieces, and consequently that amount of property was the standard of the first class of citizens. o. in the consulship of Quintus Ogulnius and Gaius It Fabius, five years before the first Punic War. was decided that the value of a denarius should be ten pounds of bronze, that of a half-denarius five pounds, that of a sesterce two pounds and a half. The weight of a standard pound " of bronze was however reduced during the first Punic War, when the state could not meet its expenditure, and it was enacted that the as should be struck weighing two interest as ' ' * ' * ' ' ' ' ; ' ounces.
30 about the 230th year of the city of Rome. Still the employment of a signet-ring must have begun to be much more frequent with the introduction of usury. c. ; About first and signet-rings came in afterwards. money we shall speak rather later. VII. As soon as rings began to be commonly worn, they distinguished the second order from the commons, just as a tunic distinguished the senate from those who wore the ring, although this distinction also was only introduced at a late date, and we find that a wider purple stripe on the tunic was commonly worn even by heralds, for instance the father o'f Lucius Aehus Stilo Praeconinus, who received his surname ^ from his father's office.
Avt : folia coni. B cdd. (om. e. funebri patris : fuit, omni primus in apparatu argenti a/. Par. 6801). solia ac Pintianits: foliatam folia ac rell. : Warmingion. pendere aut habere patere M. Detlefsen capere Gelen coni. Mayhoff patere cdd. (paterem cd. Leid. ). 5 victae cd. Par. 0801. * : : : Probably the right reading is d = 500. The legend was that Phrixus flew there on a ram with a fleece of gold to escape from his stopmother, and married the " ^ 42 BOOK XXXIII. XV. 51-XVI. 53 when conquered together with Hannibal, 800,000 pounds weight of silver in yearly instalments of Nor 16,000 pounds spread over 50 years, but no gold.