Natural History, Volume V: Books 17-19 [Latin]

by Pliny the Elder

An unrivaled compendium of ancient Roman knowledge.

Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23-79), a Roman of equestrian rank of Transpadane Gaul (N. Italy), was uncle of Pliny the letter writer. He pursued a career partly military in Germany, partly administrative in Gaul and Spain under the emperor Vespasian, and became prefect of the fleet at Misenum. He died in the eruption of Vesuvius when he went to get a closer view and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Latin
• ISBN: 0674994094
• ISBN13: 9780674994096
• Release Date: January 1950
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.6" x 6.6"