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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6)

Note 398 — BOOK II. AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD AND THE ELEMENTS. (continued 2)

John Bostock translation

This effect may be easily explained by the agitation into which the female might have been thrown. The title of “princeps Romanarum,” which is applied to Marcia, has given rise to some discussion among the commentators, for which see the remarks of Hardouin and Alexandre, in Lemaire, i. 348.

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