# Naturalis Historia 2.1.247-248

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 2.1.247 to 2.1.248. Latin.

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[248] alia Dionysidoro fides. neque enim subtraham exemplum scientia nobilis; senecta diem obiit in patria. funus duxere either propinquae, ad quas pertinebat hereditas. hae cum secutis diebus iusta peragerent, invenisse dicuntur scriptam: pervenisse eum a sepulchro ad infimam terram; esse eo stadiorum |XLII|. nec defuere geometrae qui interpretarentur, significare epistulam a medio terrarum orbe missam, quod deorsum ab summo longissimum esset spatium et idem pilae medium. ex quo consecuta conputatio est, ut circuitum esse |CCLII| stadiorum pronuntiarent. Harmonica ratio, quae cogit rerum naturam sibi ipsam congruere, addit huic mensurae stadiorum |XII| terramque XCVI partem totius mundi facit. Pliny the Elder The Latin Library The Classics Page

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