Note 1052 — Chapter I · THE ELDER PLINY: FLAVIAN SCIENCE AND HISTORY
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Numbers often constituted a difficulty in the MSS., and uncertainty led to gaps. Klotz, loc. cit., p. 325, cites Dicuil, De mens. orb. terr., as aware of imperfections in Pliny MSS. On the figures, cf. Birt, Das antike Buchwesen, Berl., 1882, p. 333.