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  BOHN’S CLASSICAL LIBRARY.

  NATURAL HISTORY OF PLINY.

  VOL. IV.




  THE

  NATURAL HISTORY

  OF

  PLINY.

  TRANSLATED,

  WITH COPIOUS NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS


  BY THE LATE

  JOHN BOSTOCK, M.D., F.R.S.,

  AND

  H. T. RILEY, ESQ., B.A.,

  LATE SCHOLAR OF CLARE HALL, CAMBRIDGE.

  VOL. IV.

  LONDON:
  HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
  MDCCCLVI.




CONTENTS

OF THE FOURTH VOLUME.


  BOOK XVIII.

  THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GRAIN.

  CHAP.                                                         Page

  1. Taste of the ancients for agriculture                         1

  2. When the first wreaths of corn were used at Rome           