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

Note 2088 — BOOK XV. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FRUIT-TREES. (continued 2)

John Bostock translation

The Senate refused him a triumph; and he accordingly celebrated one on the Alban Mount, B.C. 231. Paulus Diaconus says that his reason for wearing a myrtle crown was his victory over the Corsicans on the Myrtle Plains, though where they were, or what victory is alluded to, is not known.

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