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Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.), BOOK XXXII.It is in the last six Books of Pliny, and those only, we regret to say,
that we are enabled to avail ourselves of the new readings of the Bamberg
MS., which has been so admirably collated by M. Ian. In a vast number
of passages previously looked upon as hopelessly corrupt, or else not at all
suspected of being in a mutilated state, this MS. supplies words and clauses,
the existence of which in the original was hitherto unknown; indeed by its
aid the indefatigable Sillig has been enabled, if we may be allowed the
term, almost to
REMEDIES DERIVED FROM AQUATIC ANIMALS., CHAP. 2.—THE TORPEDO: NINE REMEDIES. (search)
rewritethe last six Books of Pliny. From a perusal of these new readings, as Dr. Smith has justly remarked, we have reason to infer "that the text of the earlier Books is still in a very defective state, and that much of the obscurity of Pliny may be traced to this cause."