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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 5 (of 6)

Note 2152 — BOOK XXVIII. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES.

John Bostock translation

In B. vii. c. 2, he speaks of these people—“the serpent-born”—as natives of Parium, a town of the Hellespont. Ajasson suggests that they may have been a branch of the Thamirades, a sacerdotal family of Cyprus.

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