Natural History, by Pliny the Elder, Reading 1
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Is There Any One Who Has Ever Transcribed of All the Topics?
My object is to treat of all those things which the Greeks include in the encyclopedia, which however are either not generally known, or are rendered dubious from our ingenious conceits. And there are other matters which many writers have given so much in detail that we quite loathe them. It is indeed no easy task to give novelty to what is old, and authority to what is new. But it is sufficiently honorable and glorious to have been willing even to make the attempt, although it should prove unsuccessful.
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