The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 4H. G. Bohn, 1856 - 544 pages |
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... Italy produced was sufficient for its wants , and it had to be indebted to no province for its food ; and not only this , but the price of provisions was in- credibly cheap . Manius Marcius , the ædile30 of the people , was the first ...
... Italy produced was sufficient for its wants , and it had to be indebted to no province for its food ; and not only this , but the price of provisions was in- credibly cheap . Manius Marcius , the ædile30 of the people , was the first ...
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... Italy , and soon will be that of the provinces as well . Six proprietors were in possession of one half of Africa , " at the period when 61 Od . v . 469. If the river has a bed of sand and high banks , it is really advantageous than ...
... Italy , and soon will be that of the provinces as well . Six proprietors were in possession of one half of Africa , " at the period when 61 Od . v . 469. If the river has a bed of sand and high banks , it is really advantageous than ...
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... Italy only ; for in Greece and Asia all the grains are sown just after the setting of the Vergiliæ . There are some , again , that are sown at either season in Italy , and others at a third period , or , in other words , in the spring ...
... Italy only ; for in Greece and Asia all the grains are sown just after the setting of the Vergiliæ . There are some , again , that are sown at either season in Italy , and others at a third period , or , in other words , in the spring ...
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... Italy within the last ten years , of a swarthy colour , large grain , and a 4 This is certainly the fact , as Fee says , but it is the same with all the graminea . A characteristic of the Panicum miliaceum in particular . Or porridge ...
... Italy within the last ten years , of a swarthy colour , large grain , and a 4 This is certainly the fact , as Fee says , but it is the same with all the graminea . A characteristic of the Panicum miliaceum in particular . Or porridge ...
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... Italy either for whiteness or weight , qualities for which it is more particularly distinguished : indeed it is only with the produce of the more mountainous parts of Italy that the foreign wheats can be put in comparison . Among these ...
... Italy either for whiteness or weight , qualities for which it is more particularly distinguished : indeed it is only with the produce of the more mountainous parts of Italy that the foreign wheats can be put in comparison . Among these ...
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