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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 VII.
We here enter upon the third division of Pliny's Natural History,
which treats of Zoology, from the 7th to the 11th inclusive. Cuvier
has illustrated this part by many valuable notes, which originally appeared
in Lemaire's 1827 , and were afterwards incorporated,
with some additions, by Ajasson, in his translation of Pliny, published in
1829 ; Ajasson is the editor of this portion of Pliny's Natural History,
in Lemaire's Edition.—B. MAN, HIS BIRTH, HIS ORGANIZATION, AND THE INVENTION OF THE ARTS., CHAP. 11. (13.)—WHAT MEN ARE SUITED FOR GENERATION. INSTANCES OF VERY NUMEROUS OFFSPRING. (search)
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CHAP. 11. (13.)—WHAT MEN ARE SUITED FOR GENERATION. INSTANCES OF VERY NUMEROUS OFFSPRING.
There exists a kind of peculiar antipathy between the bodies
of certain persons, which, though barren with respect to
each other, are not so when united to others;This opinion is maintained by Hippocrates, and by Aristotle, Hist.
Anim. B. vii. c. 8, and is referred to by Lucretius, B. iv. c. 1242, et
seq.—B. such, for instance, was the case with Augustus and Livia.The case of Livia and that of Agrippina, referred to by Pliny, are
mentioned by Suetonius, in the Life of Augustus, c. 63; and that of Caligula, c. 7.—B. Certain individuals, again, both men and women, produce only females,
others males; and, still more frequently, children of the two
sexes alternately; the mother of the Gracchi, for instance,
who had twelve children, and Agrippina, the mother of Germanicus, who had nine. Some women, again, are barren in
their youth, while to others it is given to bring forth once only
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