# Naturalis Historia 5.57

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book 5. Latin.

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57] Incipit crescere luna nova, quaecumque post solstitium est, sensim modiceque cancrum sole transeunte, abundantissime autem leonem, et residit in virgine isdem quibus adcrevit modis. in totum autem revocatur intra ripas in libra, ut tradit Herodotus, centesimo die. cum crescit, reges aut praefectos navigare eo nefas iudicatum est. auctus per puteos mensurae notis deprehenduntur. iustum incrementum est cubitorum XVI.

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