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Gajus Plinius Secundus

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Book 1, Dedication (C. Plinius Secundus to his friend Titus Vespasian)

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Book 2, Chapters 1-5 (Whether the world be finite; Of the form of the world; Of its nature, whence the name is derived; Of the elements and the planets; Of God)

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Book 2, Chapters 6-8 (Of the nature of the stars; Of the motion of the planets; Of the eclipses of the moon and the sun; Of the magnitude of the stars)

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Book 2, Chapters 9-13 (An account of the observations that have been made on the heavens by many individuals; On the recurrence of the eclipses of the sun and the moon; Of the motion of the moon; Of the motions of the planets; Why the same stars appear at some times more lofty and at other times more near)

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Book 2, Chapters 14-23

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Book 2, Chapters 24-45

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Book 2, Chapters 46-55

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Book 2, Chapters 56-66

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Book 2, Chapters 67-77

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Book 2, Chapters 78-96

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Book 2, Chapters 97-106

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Book 2, Chapters 107-113 and Summary (The wonders of fire and water united; Of Maltha; Of naphtha; Places which are always burning; Wonders of fire alone; The dimensions of the earth; The harmonical proportions of the universe; Summary; Roman authors quoted; Foreign authors quoted)

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Book 3, Introduction and Chapters 1-3 (Introduction; The boundaries and gulfs of Europe first set forth in a general way; Of Spain generally; Of Baetica)

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Book 3, Chapter 4 (Of Nearer Spain)

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Book 3, Chapters 5-7 (Of the province of Gallia Narbonensis; Of Italy; Of the ninth region of Italy)

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Book 3, Chapters 8-9 (The seventh region of Italy; The first region of Italy; The Tiber; Rome)

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Book 3, Chapters 10-14 (The third region of Italy; Sixty-four islands, among which are the Baleares; Corsica; Sardinia; Sicily)

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Book 3, Chapters 15-17 (Magna Graecia, beginning at Locri; The second region of Italy; The fourth region of Italy)

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Book 3, Chapters 18-22 (The fifth region of Italy; The sixth region of Italy;The eighth region of Italy; The Padus; The eleventh region of Italy; Italia Transpadana; The tenth region of Italy)

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Book 3, Chapters 23-30 and Summary (Istria, its people and locality; The Alps and the Alpine nations; Liburnia and Illyricum; Dalmatia; The Norici; Pannonia; Moesia; Islands of the Ionic Sea and the Adriatic; Summary; Roman authors quoted; Foreign authors quoted)

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Book 4, Chapters 1-10 (Epirus; Acarnania; Aetolia; Locris and Phocis; The Peloponnesus; Achaia; Messenia; Laconia; Argolis; Arcadia)

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Book 17, Chapters 14-19 (Seed-plots; the mode of propagating the elm; the holes for transplanting; the intervals to be left between trees; the nature of the shadow thrown by trees; the dropping of water from the leaves)

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Book 17, Chapters 5-13 (The employment of ashes; manure; crops that tend to improve the land; the proper mode of using manure; the modes in which trees bear; plants which are propagated by seed; trees which never degenerate; propagation by suckers; propagation by slips and cuttings)

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Book 17, Chapters 20-28 (Trees which grow but slowly; trees propagated from layers; grafting; inoculation or budding; the various kinds of grafting; grafting the vine; grafting by scutcheons; plants which grow from a branch; trees which grow from cuttings)

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Book 17, Chapters 29-34 (The cultivation of the olive; cleaning and baring the roots; willow-beds; reed-beds; other plants that are cut for poles)

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Book 17, Chapter 35 (The culture of the vine)

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Book 17, Chapters 36-39 (How grapes are protected; the diseases of trees; treatment of the diseases of trees)

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Book 18, Chapters 67-71 (Work for spring; hay-making; the summer solstice; causes of sterility; remedies against noxious influences)

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Book 17, Chapters 40-47 (Methods of irrigation; remarkable facts connected with irrigation; incisions made in trees; caprification; errors that may be commited in pruning; the proper mode of manuring trees; medicaments for trees; summary; Roman authors quoted; foreign authors quoted)

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Book 18, Chapters 1-7 (Taste of the ancients for agriculture; the first wreaths of corn at Rome; the jugerum of land; the price of corn; writers upon agriculture; on buying land; arrangements for a farmhouse)

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Book 18, Chapters 8-17 (Maxims of the ancients on agriculture; the different kinds of grains; the history of grain; spelt; wheat; barley; rice; polenta; tragum; amylum)

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Book 18, Chapters 18-29 (Barley; arinca and other kinds of grain; winter wheat; wheat in Africa; sesame; the mode of grinding corn; millet; leaven; the method of making bread; when bakers were first introduced in Rome; alica)

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Book 18, Chapters 30-45 (Leguminous plants; the bean; the chick-peas; the kidney-beans; the rape; the turnip; the lupine; the fitch; silicia; farrago; lucerne; the diseases of grain; the remedies for the diseases of grain)

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Book 18, Chapters 46-53 (Crops sown in different soils; cultivations by various nations; various kinds of ploughs; the mode of ploughing; extreme fertility of soil; the manuring of land)

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Book 18, Chapters 54-66 (How to acertain the quality of seed; how much grain requisite for a jugerum; the proper times for sowing; arrengement of the stars; the rising and setting of the stars; the epochs of the seasons; the proper time for winter sowing; work for each month; work for winter)

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Book 18, Chapters 72-77 (The harvest; the methods of storing corn; the vintage; the revolutions of the moon; the theory of winds; the laying out of lands)

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Book 18, Chapters 78-90

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Book 19, Chapters 1-9 (The nature of flax; how flax is sown; principal varieties of flax; the mode of preparing flax; linen made of asbestos; the nature of spartum; the mode of preparing spartum)

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Book 19, Chapters 10-21 (The bulb eriophorus; misy; geranion; maspetum; magydaris; the pleasures of the garden; plants other than grain)

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Book 19, Chapters 22-31 (Twenty different plants that grow in garden; cucumbers; gourds; turnips; radishes; parsnips; skirret; elecampagne; bulbs; the roots, flowers andf leaves of all these plants)

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Book 19, Chapters 32-40 (Varieties of the onion; the leek; garlic; growth of plants; the nature of the various seeds; different kinds of plants; the nature of garden plants; endive; beet)

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Book 19, Chapters 41-52 (Cabbages; wild and cultivated asparagus; thistles; rue; parsley; mint; olusatrum; caraway; lovage; dittander; gith)

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Book 19, Chapters 53-62 (The poppy; wild thyme; the maladies of garden plants; the proper method of watering gardens; the juices and flavours of gaden herbs; piperitis; summary; Roman author quoted; foreign authors quoted)

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Book 20, Chapters 15-29 (Remedies made from the wild parsnip; gingidion; the skirret; sile; elecampane; onions; cutlerk; garlic; the lettuce; hawk-weed; beet; endive)

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Book 20, Chapters 30-45 (Remedies made from cichorium; seris; the cabbage; opinions of the Greeks; cabbage-sprouts; the sea-cabbage; the squill; bulbs; bulbine; garden asparagus; parsley; aplastrum)

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Book 20, Chapters 46-55 (Remedies made from olusatrum; ocimum; rocket; nasturtium; rue; wild mint; mint; pennyroyal; wild pennyroyal)

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Book 20, Chapters 56-73 (Remedies made from nep; cummin; ammi; caper; lovage; cunila bubula; piperitis; origanum; gith; anise; where the best anise is found)

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Book 20, Chapters 74-86 (Remedies made from dill; white and black poppy; the wild poppy; purslain; coriander; orage; the mallow; wild lapathum; cultivated lapathum)

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Book 20, Chapters 87-100 (Remedies made from mustard; marrubium; wild thyme; linseed; blite; meum; fennel; hemp; the thistle; the comoposition of thesiaca; summary; Roman authors quoted; foreign authors quoted)

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Book 21, Chapters 1-9 (The nature of flowers and garlands; garlands and chaplets; who invented the art of making garlands;the severity of the ancients in relation to chaplets; authors who have written on flowers)

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