The Natural History of Pliny, Volum 4H. G. Bohn, 1856 - 544 sider |
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Side 29
... Fée thinks that it signifies angles , and points . The Polygonum fagopyrum of Linnæus , he says , buck - wheat , or black - wheat , has an angular grain , but he doubts whether that can possibly be the grain here alluded to . 52 There ...
... Fée thinks that it signifies angles , and points . The Polygonum fagopyrum of Linnæus , he says , buck - wheat , or black - wheat , has an angular grain , but he doubts whether that can possibly be the grain here alluded to . 52 There ...
Side 35
... Fée thinks that by the name , some exotic gramineous plant is meant . 97 Probably a variety of spelt , as Sprengel conjectures , from Galen and other writers . See c . 16 of this Book . 96 Fée thinks that it is the grain of the Festuca ...
... Fée thinks that by the name , some exotic gramineous plant is meant . 97 Probably a variety of spelt , as Sprengel conjectures , from Galen and other writers . See c . 16 of this Book . 96 Fée thinks that it is the grain of the Festuca ...
Side 58
... Fée thinks that this may possibly be efficacious against the attacks of rats , as the author of the Geoponica , B, x . , states . fixed in the ground , it will pass away from 58 [ Book XVIII . PLINY'S NATURAL HISTORY .
... Fée thinks that this may possibly be efficacious against the attacks of rats , as the author of the Geoponica , B, x . , states . fixed in the ground , it will pass away from 58 [ Book XVIII . PLINY'S NATURAL HISTORY .
Side 92
... Fée thinks that the former was similar to the " faux faucille , " or false sickle , the latter to the common sickle of the French . 32 Fée says that this is the case in some parts of France . 33 In c . 59 of this Book . 34 Twenty ...
... Fée thinks that the former was similar to the " faux faucille , " or false sickle , the latter to the common sickle of the French . 32 Fée says that this is the case in some parts of France . 33 In c . 59 of this Book . 34 Twenty ...
Side 102
... Fée says , apparently the loss is little to be regretted . 86 Rubeta rana . 87 De Re Rust . 129. Cato , however , does not mention chalk , but Virgil ( Georg , i . 178 ) does . Poinsinet thinks that this is a " lapsus memoriæ " Pliny but ...
... Fée says , apparently the loss is little to be regretted . 86 Rubeta rana . 87 De Re Rust . 129. Cato , however , does not mention chalk , but Virgil ( Georg , i . 178 ) does . Poinsinet thinks that this is a " lapsus memoriæ " Pliny but ...
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