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Plin. H 3.11.97: A Lacinio promunturio secundus Europae sinus incipit magno ambitu<br />
flexus et Acroceraunio Epiri finitus promunturio, a quo abest LXXV. Oppidum Croto,<br />
amnis eaethus, oppidum Thurii inter duos amnes Cr<strong>at</strong>him et Sybarim, ubi fuit urbs<br />
eodem nomine. Similiter est inter Sirim et Acirim Heraclea aliquando Siris vocit<strong>at</strong>a.<br />
Flumina Acalandrum, Casuentum, oppidum Metapontum, quo tertia Italiae regio finitur.<br />
At the promontory <strong>of</strong> Lacinium begins the second Gulf <strong>of</strong> Europe; it curves round<br />
in a large bay and ends in Acroceraunium, a promontory <strong>of</strong> Epirus; the distance from cape<br />
to cape is 75 miles. Here are the fortress <strong>of</strong> Croton, the river Neto, and the fortress <strong>of</strong><br />
Thurii between the rivers Cr<strong>at</strong>i and Sybaris, on which once stood the city <strong>of</strong> the same<br />
name. Likewise Heraclea, once called Siris, lies between the Siris and the Aciris. Then the<br />
rivers Salandra and Bassiento, and the fortress <strong>of</strong> Metapontum, where the third region <strong>of</strong><br />
Italy ends. (H. Rackham).<br />
Plin. H 14.25.123: Pudetque confiteri maximum iam honorem eius esse in evellendis<br />
virorum corpori pilis.<br />
And I am ashamed to confess th<strong>at</strong> the chief value now set on resin is for use as a<br />
depil<strong>at</strong>ory for men. (H. Rackham).<br />
Plin. H 14.25.127: Pix in Italia ad vasa vino condendo maxime prob<strong>at</strong>ur Buttia.<br />
The pitch most highly esteemed in Italy for vessels intended for storing wine is th<strong>at</strong><br />
which comes from the Bruttii. (H. Rackham).<br />
Plin. H 16.22.53: Bruttian cognomen accepit… lentore ab alia pice differens, item<br />
colore rutilante et quod pinguior est reliqua omni illa.<br />
And it has given the name <strong>of</strong> Bruttian pitch… and differs from other pitch by its<br />
viscosity and also by its reddish color and because it is greasier than all the rest. (H.<br />
Rackham).<br />
Plin. H 16.56.201: Abies admir<strong>at</strong>ionis praecipuae visa est in nave quae ex Aegypto Gai<br />
principis iussu obeliscum in V<strong>at</strong>icano circo st<strong>at</strong>utum qu<strong>at</strong>tuorque truncos lapidis eiusdem<br />
ad sustinendum eum adduxit; qua nave nihil admirabilius visum in mari certum est. CXX<br />
modium lentis pro saburra ei fuere: longitudo sp<strong>at</strong>ium obtinuit magna ex parte Ostiensis<br />
portus l<strong>at</strong>ere laevo; ibi namque demersa est Claudio principe cum tribus molibus turrium<br />
altitudine in ea exaedific<strong>at</strong>is, factis ob id ex Puteolano pulvere advectisque.<br />
An especially wonderful fir was seen in the ship which brought from Egypt <strong>at</strong> the<br />
order <strong>of</strong> the emperor Gaius the obelisk erected in the V<strong>at</strong>ican Circus and four shafts <strong>of</strong> the<br />
same stone to serve as its base. It is certain th<strong>at</strong> nothing more wonderful than this ship has<br />
ever been seen on the sea: it carried one hundred and twenty bushels <strong>of</strong> lentils for ballast,<br />
and its length took up a large part <strong>of</strong> the left side <strong>of</strong> the harbor <strong>of</strong> Ostia, for under the<br />
emperor Claudius it was sunk there, with three moles as high as towers erected upon it th<strong>at</strong><br />
had been made <strong>of</strong> Pozzuoli cement for the purpose and conveyed to the place.<br />
(H. Rackham).
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