Note 1115 — Chapter I · THE ELDER PLINY: FLAVIAN SCIENCE AND HISTORY
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Homer, VII. 108: “pretiosissimum humani animi opus”; XVII. 37: “fons ingeniorum Homerus”; eulogy on Cicero, VII. 116-117, XVII. 38: “Cicero, lux doctrinarum altera”; Virgil, VII. 114.