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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2)

Note 873 — COLLECTIONS OF NATURAL CURIOSITIES.

William Johnston translation

Varro, in Nonius, cap. iii. The following words of Lucretius, b. iii. ver. 902, “aut in melle situm suffocari,” allude perhaps to the above circumstance.

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