The lives of the first twelve Cæsars / translated from the Latin of C. Suetonius Tranquillus: with annotations, and a review of the government and literature of the different periods. By Alexander Thomson, M.D.

  • Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122. De vita Caesarum. English
Date:
1796
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    teenth, of the nature of lint, hemp, and fimllar produc- tions ; the twentieth, of the medicinal qualities of vege- tables cultivated in gardens; the twenty-firfl, of flowers; the twenty-fecond, of the properties of herbs; the twen- ty-third, of the medicines yielded by cultivated trees; the twenty-fourth, of medicines derived from foreft-trees} the twenty-fifth, of the properties of wild herbs, and the origin of their ufe ; the twenty-fixth, of other remedies for difeafes, and of fome new difeafes ; the twenty-feventhi of different kinds of herbs; the twenty-eighth, twenty- ninth, and thirtieth, of medicines procured from ani- mals ; the thirty-firfl, and thirty-fecond, of medicines obtained from aquatic animals, with fo’me extraordinary facts relative ]to the fubjedt; the thirty-third, of the na- ture of metals; the thirty-fourth, of brafs, iron, lead, and tin ; the thirty-fifth, of pidtures, and obfervations re- lative to painting; the thirty-fixth, of the nature of fiones.and marbles ; the thirty-feventh, of the origin of gems. To the contents of each book, the author fub- joins a lift of the writers from whom his obfervations have been colledled. Of Pliny’s talents as a writer, it might be deemed pre- fumptuous to form a decided opinion from his Natural Hiftory, which is avowedly a compilation from various authors, and executed with greater regard to the mat- ter of the work, than to the elegance of compofition, Abftradling, however, from a degree of credulity, com- mon to the human mind in the early ftage of phy- fical refearches, he is far from being deficient in the eflential qualifications of a writer of Natural Hiftory. His deferiptions appear to be accurate, his obfervations precife, his narrative in general perfpicuous ; and he of- ten illuftrates his fubjedl by a vivacity of thought, as 6 well