# Naturalis Historia 3.2

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book 3. Latin.

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2] ideo nec culpabo aut coarguam quemquam. locorum nuda nomina et quanta dabitur brevitate ponentur, claritate causisque dilatis in suas partes; nunc enim sermo de toto est. quare sic accipi velim, ut si vidua fama sua nomina, qualia fuere primordio ante ullas res gestas, nuncupentur et sit quaedam in his nomenclatura quidem, sed mundi rerumque naturae.

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