Note 1039 — Chapter I · THE ELDER PLINY: FLAVIAN SCIENCE AND HISTORY
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N.H., II. 199: “anno Neronis principis supremo, sicut in rebus eius exposuimus”; praef. 20 (of Vespasian and his sons): “Vos omnes, patrem te fratremque, diximus opere iusto, temporum nostrorum orsi a fine Aufidi Bassi.”