Note 1072 — Chapter I · THE ELDER PLINY: FLAVIAN SCIENCE AND HISTORY
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N.H., XXV. 9: “cui summa auctoritas erat in ea arte nostro acuo.” Wellmann, “Beiträge zur Quellenanalyse des älteren Plinius,” Herm., lix. (1924), p. 129 sqq., has endeavoured to awake fresh interest in Castor as a Latin source and in Solon of Smyrna as a Greek source for Pliny’s medical botany.