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A literary history of Rome in the Silver Age

Note 1009 — Chapter I · THE ELDER PLINY: FLAVIAN SCIENCE AND HISTORY

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Text: Barbarus, Rome, 1492; Dalecampius, Lyons, 1587; Gronov, c. not. varior., Leyd., 1669; Harduinus, Par., 1685 (1723); Franz, c. not. Harduini et varior., 10 vols., Leipz., 1778-1791; Sillig, 8 vols., Gotha, 1851-1858; Jan, Lpz., 1854-1865; ed. 3, Mayhoff, 1906 sqq.; Detlefsen, Berl., 1866-1882, and crit. ed. of geog. bks. (II. 242–VI.), Berl., 1905; Morceaux extraits de Pline, trad. en fr., Guéroult, ed. augm., Par., 1845; Chrestomathia Pliniana, Urlichs, Berl., 1857; Chapters on Hist. of Art (from XXXIV.-XXXVI.), text and tr., Jex-Blake, introd. and comm., Sellers, Lond., 1896.

Trans.: Philemon Holland, Lond., 1601; ed. 2, 1634; Bostock and Riley, Lond., 6 vols., 1898, etc.

On his science: Plinius u. seine Naturgesch. in ihrer Bedeutung für d. Gegenwart, Dannemann, Jena, 1921.

On sources see bibliogr. in Teuffel, op. cit., Schanz, op. cit., and footnotes in this chapter.

On style: Der Stil des ält. Plin., Joh. Müller, Innsbr., 1883.

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