Note 1055 — Chapter I · THE ELDER PLINY: FLAVIAN SCIENCE AND HISTORY
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Rose, Aristoteles Pseudepigraphus, Lpz., 1863 (“ipsius nunquam Aristotelis Graecos libros adhibuit”); Birt, De Halieuticis Ouidio falso adscriptis, Bonn, 1878 (criticized by Aly, Zur Quellenkritik, 1885, pp. 17-18); Koebert, Das Kunstverständnis des Plinius, pp. 134-146, in Abhandlungen ... W. v. Christ dargebracht, 1891; Rabenhorst, Der ältere Plinius als Epitomator des Verrius Flaccus, Berl., 1903, and Die indices auctorum u. die wirklichen Quellen der N.H., Philol., 65, 1906 (examined by Klotz, Herm., xlii., p. 324 sqq., who declines to regard Pliny as a miserable humbug, “elender Windbeutel” and swaggerer, “Aufschneider.”) For brief account of Verrius Flaccus, see Wight Duff, Lit. Hist. of Rome to Golden Age, pp. 629-631; Trogus, ib., pp. 631, 636-637; Figulus, ib., p. 346; Juba, ib., p. 667.