# Naturalis Historia 3.42

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

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42] neque ingenia ritusque ac viros et lingua manuque superatas commemoro gentes. ipsi de ea iudicavere Grai, genus in gloriam sui effusissimum, quotam partem ex ea appellando Graeciam Magnam! nimirum id, quod in caeli mentione facimus, hac quoque in parte facimus, ut notas quasdam et pauca sidera attingamus. legentes tantum quaeso meminerint ad singula tot orbe edissertanda festinari.

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