Note 1049 — Chapter I · THE ELDER PLINY: FLAVIAN SCIENCE AND HISTORY
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VIII. 43-44: “Aristoteles ... uir quem in his magna secuturus ex parte praefandum reor,” i.e. Aristotle is for zoology his great authority, and Pliny proceeds to mention his summary of 50 volumes of Aristotle (“collecta in artum”). Klotz points out that the words in VI. 49, “Demodamas ... quem maxime sequimur,” only mean that Pliny’s material at this point goes back in the last resort to Demodamas (“in letzter Linie zum grössten Teil auf D. zurückgehen,” Herm., xlii., p. 327).