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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 I.Lemaire informs us, in his title-page, that the two first books of the Natural History are edited by M. Alexandre, in his edition., DEDICATION. (search)
reciate it, and, especially, such as are themselves void of all merit; but I let their harangues glide by me." Nor was the remark of PlancusLucius Munatius Plancus took a conspicuous part in the political intrigues of the times and was especially noted for his follies and extravagance. a bad one, when Asinius PollioAsinius Pollio is a name which stands high in Roman literature; according to the remark of Alexandre, "Vir magnus fuit, prono tamen ad obtrectandum ingenio, quod arguunt ejus cum Cicerone simultates," Lemaire, i. 30. This hostile feeling towards Cicero is supposed to have proceeded from envy and mortification, because he was unable to attain the same eminence in the art of oratory with his illustrious rival. See Hardouin's Index Auctorum, in Lemaire, i. 168. was said to be preparing an oration against him, which was to be published either by himself or his children, after the death of Plancus, in order that he might not be able to answer it: "It is only ghosts that fight wit