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

Note 2214 — BOOK XVI. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FOREST TREES.

John Bostock translation

Athenæus and Fabius Pictor say that Janus was the first wearer of a crown; Pherecydes says it was Saturn, Diodorus Siculus Jupiter, and Leo Ægyptiacus Isis, who wore one of wheat.

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