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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 3 (of 6)

Note 521 — BOOK XII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF TREES.

John Bostock translation

He was a kinsman of Olympias, the mother of Alexander, and a man of very austere habits. Plutarch says, that on this occasion Alexander sent to Leonidas 600 talents’ weight of incense and myrrh.

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