# Naturalis Historia 0.24

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Praefatio. Latin.

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24] Inscriptionis apud Graecos mira felicitas: khrion inscripsere, quod volebant intellegi favum, alii keraV AmalqeiaV, quod copiae cornu, ut vel lactis gallinacei sperare possis in volumine haustum; iam ia, Mousai, pandektai, egceiridia, leimwn, pinax, scediwn: inscriptiones, propter quas vadimonium deseri possit; at cum intraveris, di deaeque, quam nihil in medio invenies! nostri graviores Antiquitatium, Exemplorum Artiumque, facetissimi Lucubrationum, puto quia Bibaculus erat et vocabatur. paulo minus asserit Varro in satiris suis Sesculixe et Flextabula.

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