# Naturalis Historia 5.58

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

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58] minores aquae non omnia rigant, ampliores detinent tardius recedendo. hae serendi tempora absumunt solo madente, illae non dant sitiente. utrumque reputat provincia. in XII cubitis famem sentit, in XIII etiamnum esurit, XIIII cubita hilaritatem adferunt, XV securitatem, XVI delicias. maximum incrementum ad hoc aevi fuit cubitorum XVIII Claudio principe, minimum V Pharsalico bello, veluti necem Magni prodigio quodam flumine adversante. su stetere aquae, apertis molibus admittuntur. ut quaeque liberata est terra, seritur. idem amnis unus omnium nullas exspirat auras.

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