Natural History, by Pliny the Elder, Reading 1
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A Brief History of the Ancient Greeks
The Greeks were wonderfully happy in their titles. One work they called as sweet as a honeycomb, another cornucopia so that you might expect to get even a draft of pigeons milk from it. I do not regret not having given my work a more fanciful title. For it is indeed the mark of a perverted mind and a bad disposition to prefer being caught in a theft to returning what we have borrowed. Of these I shall give an account in the proper place.
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