Historia naturalis

nātūrālis, e, adj. [natura], natural, i. e.,

By birth, one's own:

naturalis pater, opp. to adoptive father,

Cic. Phil. 3, 6, 15:

in adoptionem dato redire in familiam liceat, si pater naturalis sine liberis decesserit,

Quint. 3, 6, 96: filius ( = kata phusin uios), Liv. 42, 52:

Pauli nepos,

id. 44, 44; Suet. Tib. 52; Gai. Inst. 2, 137; 3, 31:

qui in avi sui naturalis potestate est,

Dig. 37, 8, 1, § 2; also, natural, illegitimate ( = nothus), Dig. 40, 5, 40; 36, 1, 80, § 2; Aug. Conf. 6, 12; Inscr. Grut. 945, 3.—

Of or belonging to the nature of things, produced by or agreeable to nature, natural:

naturale est alicui,

it is natural to one, it is his innate quality, Plin. 11, 37. 54, §

144: historia, id. praef. § 1: motus naturalis,

Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 19:

societas,

id. Off. 1, 16, 50:

lex,

id. N. D. 1, 14, 36:

notio naturalis atque insita in animis nostris,

id. Fin. 1, 9, 31:

naturalis, non fucatus nitor,

id. Brut. 9, 36:

bonum,

id. Cael. 5, 11: dies, a natural day, i. e. from sunrise to sunset, opp. to the dies civilis, Censor. de Die Nat. 23;

v. civilis: mors,

a natural, not a violent death, Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 180 (for the class. mors necessaria, Cic. Mil. 7, 16):

naturales exitus,

the anus, Col. 6, 30, 8:

naturalia desideria,

the serual impulse, id. 6, 24, 2; 6, 27, 7: loca naturalia, the sexual parts of men and animals, Cels. 1, p. 11 Milligan.—As subst.: nātūrāle, is, n., the private parts:

sanguinis pars per naturale descendit,

Cels. 5, 26, 13; 7, 26, 1 al.—More freq. plur., nātūrālĭa, ĭum, n., in same sense, Cels. 4, 21 init.; 5, 20, 4; 6, 18, 2 al.; Col. 6, 27, 10; Just. 1, 4, 2.—

Of or concerning nature, natural:

naturales quaestiones,

Cic. Part. 18, 64:

historia, Plin. H. N. praef. § 1: philosophia,

Isid. Orig. 2, 24, 12.—

Opp. to fictitious, natural, real:

philosophi duos Joves fecerunt, unum naturalem, alterum fabulosum,

Lact. 1, 11. —Hence, adv.: nātūrālĭter, naturally, conformably to nature, by nature:

nec vero umquam animus hominis naturaliter divinat,

Cic. Div. 1, 50, 113:

alacritas naturaliter innata,

Caes. B. C. 3, 92:

inter naturaliter dissimillimos,

Vell. 2, 60, 5; Plin. 11, 37, 47, § 130:

profluere (urinam),

Cels. 7, 26, 1; Hirt. B. Alex. 8:

est aliquid in omni materiā naturaliter primum,

Quint. 3, 8, 6.

histŏrĭa, ae, f., = historia, a narrative of past events, history (syn.: annales, fasti).

Lit.:

historia testis temporum, lux veritatis, vita memoriae, magistra vitae, nuntia vetustatis, qua voce alia nisi oratoris immortalitati commendatur?

Cic. de Or. 2, 9, 36:

erat enim historia (initio) nihil aliud nisi annalium confectio, etc.,

id. ib. 2, 12, 51 sq.; cf. id. Leg. 1, 2, 5 sq.; Gell. 5, 18; Plin. Ep. 5, 8;

v. the art. annalis: videtisne, quantum munds sit oratoris historia?... Nam quis nescit, primam esse historiae legem, ne quid falsi dicere audeat? deinde ne quid veri non audeat? ne qua suspicio gratiae sit in scribendo? ne qua simultatis? etc.,

Cic. de Or. 2, 15, 62 sq.:

huic generi historia finitima est, in qua et narratur ornate et regio saepe aut pugna describitur: interponuntur etiam contiones et hortationes, sed in his tracta quaedam et fluens expetitur, non haec contorta et acris oratio,

id. Or. 20, 66:

nihil est in historia pura et illustri brevitate dulcius,

id. Brut. 75, 262:

Italici belli et civilis historia,

id. Fam. 5, 12, 2; id. Leg. 1, 2, 5:

historia nec institui potest nisi praeparato otio, nec exiguo tempore absolvi,

id. ib. 1, 3, 9:

apud Herodotum, patrem historiae,

id. ib. 1, 1, 5:

hic (Sallustius) historiae major est auctor,

Quint. 2, 5, 19:

obscura est historia Romana,

Cic. Rep. 2, 18; cf.:

cum historiae cuidam tamquam vanae repugnaret,

Quint. 1, 8, 20:

si historiae lectione discipulos instruxerit,

id. 2, 5, 1:

res memoranda novis annalibus atque recenti historia,

Juv. 2, 103:

quidquid Graecia mendax audet in historia,

id. 10, 175:

auctor historiae Graecae gravissimus,

Gell. 1, 11 init.:

Sabinus, secutus quosdam historiae scriptores, dicit, etc.,

id. 7, 7, 8:

certus Romanae Historiae auctor,

Val. Max. 1, 7, 6.— Prov.: historiam scribere, to inform one's self accurately of any thing, to see a thing for one's self:

in scirpo nodum quaeris: quin nos hinc domum Redimus, nisi si historiam scripturi sumus?

Plaut. Men. 2, 1, 23.—In plur.:

simiae improbitatem historiis Graecis mandatam esse demiror,

Cic. Div. 2, 32, 69:

concessum est rhetoribus ementiri in historiis,

id. Brut. 11, 42:

nihil in historiis supra Pontificum annales haberemus,

Quint. 10, 2, 7; 12, 4, 1:

historiarum scriptor,

id. 3, 8, 49; so,

scriptores,

Juv. 7, 98:

non orationes modo, sed etiam historias legere,

Quint. 3, 8, 67; cf. id. 2, 18, 5:

tuque pedestribus Dices historiis proelia Caesaris,

Hor. C. 2, 12, 10.—

Transf., in gen.. a narrative, account, tale, story.

In abstr.:

historiam veterem atque antiquam haec mea senectus sustinet,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 100:

si quid in ea epistula fuit historia dignum, scribe quam primum, ne ignoremus,

Cic. Att. 2, 8, 1:

et quia narrationum tres accepimus species: fabulam... argumentum... historiam, in qua est gestae rei expositio, etc.,

Quint. 2, 4, 2:

maxima de nihilo nascitur historia,

Prop. 2, 1, 16:

hactenus historiae: nunc ad tua devehar astra,

id. 4 (5), 1, 119; cf.:

satis historiarum est,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 50:

amarae,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 89; id. C. 3, 7, 20; Ov. Am. 2, 4, 44.—Hence: Naturalis Historia, the title of the encyclopœdical work of Pliny the Elder. —Historia, a surname of C. Julius Hyginus, Suet. Gramm. 20.—

Concr., a subject of discourse:

tu quoque uti fieres nobilis historia,

Prop. 1, 15, 24.

1) исследование, изыскание (naturalis h. PM)

2) сведения, знание

3) сообщение, повествование, описание ( multae variaeque historiae AG); тема рассказа, предмет толков (fieri nobilis h. Prp)

4) историческое исследование, историография, история (h. Romana C)

5) тж. pl. историческое сочинение, работа по истории (historiam scribere Pl, C; h. belli civilis C)

6) тж. pl. сказания, мифология (h. fabularis Su)

SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy

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Pliny was well educated in Rome, and for ten years or so followed a military career with which he was able to combine literary work, writing especially on historical subjects. He completed his duties c. 57 AD and concentrated on writing until he resumed his official career in 69 AD with administrative duties. During this last phase he began work on his only extant work, the thirty-seven "books" of his Historia Naturalis (Natural History), each dealing with a broad subject such as astronomy, geography, mineralogy, etc. His last post was the command of the fleet based at Misenum, which came to an end when he sailed too near Vesuvius during the eruption that engulfed Pompeii and he was overcome by the fumes.

Pliny developed an insatiable curiosity about the natural world. Unlike the Greeks, the Romans made few original contributions to scientific thought and observation, but some made careful compilations of the learning and observations of Greek scholars. The most notable and influential of these was the Historia Naturalis. To the ideas about the natural world gleaned from earlier Greek authors, he added information about natural history, mineral resources, crafts and some technological processes, such as the extraction of metals from their ores, reported to him from the corners of the Empire. He added a few observations of his own, noted during travels on his official duties. Not all the reports were reliable, and the work often presents a tangled web of fact and fable. Gibbon described it as an immense register in which the author has "deposited the discoveries, the arts, and the errors of mankind". Pliny was indefatigable in his relentless note-taking, even dictating to his secretary while dining.

During the Dark Ages and early Middle Ages in Western Europe, Pliny's Historia Naturalis was the largest known collection of facts about the natural world and was drawn upon freely by a succession of later writers. Its influence survived the influx into Western Europe, from the twelfth century, of translations of the works of Greek and Arab scholars. After the invention of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century, Pliny was the first work on a scientific subject to be printed, in 1469. Many editions followed and it may still be consulted with profit for its insights into technical knowledge and practice in the ancient world.

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   en el vino está la verdad; un borracho no miente; el vino desata la lengua; el hombre es expansivo cuando ha bebido

   ◘ Se suele citar como autor de esta sentencia al científico, naturalista y militar romano Gayo Plinio Segundo o Plinio el Viejo (23-79 d.C.) en su Historia naturalis 14, 141. Pero la idea ya aparece en el poeta griego Alceo de Mitilene (Ἀλκαῖος, Alkaĩos), latinizado com Alcaeus (630-580 a.C.): "En oinō alētheia" (Ἐν οἴνῳ αλήθεια). El sentenia de Plinio en latín fue popularizada por el filósofo humanista, filólogo y teólogo Erasmo de Rótterdam (1466-1536), autor de importantes obras en latín.

nātūrālis, e, adj. [natura], natural, i. e.,

By birth, one's own:

naturalis pater, opp. to adoptive father,

Cic. Phil. 3, 6, 15:

in adoptionem dato redire in familiam liceat, si pater naturalis sine liberis decesserit,

Quint. 3, 6, 96: filius ( = kata phusin uios), Liv. 42, 52:

Pauli nepos,

id. 44, 44; Suet. Tib. 52; Gai. Inst. 2, 137; 3, 31:

qui in avi sui naturalis potestate est,

Dig. 37, 8, 1, § 2; also, natural, illegitimate ( = nothus), Dig. 40, 5, 40; 36, 1, 80, § 2; Aug. Conf. 6, 12; Inscr. Grut. 945, 3.—

Of or belonging to the nature of things, produced by or agreeable to nature, natural:

naturale est alicui,

it is natural to one, it is his innate quality, Plin. 11, 37. 54, §

144: historia, id. praef. § 1: motus naturalis,

Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 19:

societas,

id. Off. 1, 16, 50:

lex,

id. N. D. 1, 14, 36:

notio naturalis atque insita in animis nostris,

id. Fin. 1, 9, 31:

naturalis, non fucatus nitor,

id. Brut. 9, 36:

bonum,

id. Cael. 5, 11: dies, a natural day, i. e. from sunrise to sunset, opp. to the dies civilis, Censor. de Die Nat. 23;

v. civilis: mors,

a natural, not a violent death, Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 180 (for the class. mors necessaria, Cic. Mil. 7, 16):

naturales exitus,

the anus, Col. 6, 30, 8:

naturalia desideria,

the serual impulse, id. 6, 24, 2; 6, 27, 7: loca naturalia, the sexual parts of men and animals, Cels. 1, p. 11 Milligan.—As subst.: nātūrāle, is, n., the private parts:

sanguinis pars per naturale descendit,

Cels. 5, 26, 13; 7, 26, 1 al.—More freq. plur., nātūrālĭa, ĭum, n., in same sense, Cels. 4, 21 init.; 5, 20, 4; 6, 18, 2 al.; Col. 6, 27, 10; Just. 1, 4, 2.—

Of or concerning nature, natural:

naturales quaestiones,

Cic. Part. 18, 64:

historia, Plin. H. N. praef. § 1: philosophia,

Isid. Orig. 2, 24, 12.—

Opp. to fictitious, natural, real:

philosophi duos Joves fecerunt, unum naturalem, alterum fabulosum,

Lact. 1, 11. —Hence, adv.: nātūrālĭter, naturally, conformably to nature, by nature:

nec vero umquam animus hominis naturaliter divinat,

Cic. Div. 1, 50, 113:

alacritas naturaliter innata,

Caes. B. C. 3, 92:

inter naturaliter dissimillimos,

Vell. 2, 60, 5; Plin. 11, 37, 47, § 130:

profluere (urinam),

Cels. 7, 26, 1; Hirt. B. Alex. 8:

est aliquid in omni materiā naturaliter primum,

Quint. 3, 8, 6.

nātūrālis, e, adj. [natura], natural, i. e.,

By birth, one's own:

naturalis pater, opp. to adoptive father,

Cic. Phil. 3, 6, 15:

in adoptionem dato redire in familiam liceat, si pater naturalis sine liberis decesserit,

Quint. 3, 6, 96: filius ( = kata phusin uios), Liv. 42, 52:

Pauli nepos,

id. 44, 44; Suet. Tib. 52; Gai. Inst. 2, 137; 3, 31:

qui in avi sui naturalis potestate est,

Dig. 37, 8, 1, § 2; also, natural, illegitimate ( = nothus), Dig. 40, 5, 40; 36, 1, 80, § 2; Aug. Conf. 6, 12; Inscr. Grut. 945, 3.—

Of or belonging to the nature of things, produced by or agreeable to nature, natural:

naturale est alicui,

it is natural to one, it is his innate quality, Plin. 11, 37. 54, §

144: historia, id. praef. § 1: motus naturalis,

Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 19:

societas,

id. Off. 1, 16, 50:

lex,

id. N. D. 1, 14, 36:

notio naturalis atque insita in animis nostris,

id. Fin. 1, 9, 31:

naturalis, non fucatus nitor,

id. Brut. 9, 36:

bonum,

id. Cael. 5, 11: dies, a natural day, i. e. from sunrise to sunset, opp. to the dies civilis, Censor. de Die Nat. 23;

v. civilis: mors,

a natural, not a violent death, Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 180 (for the class. mors necessaria, Cic. Mil. 7, 16):

naturales exitus,

the anus, Col. 6, 30, 8:

naturalia desideria,

the serual impulse, id. 6, 24, 2; 6, 27, 7: loca naturalia, the sexual parts of men and animals, Cels. 1, p. 11 Milligan.—As subst.: nātūrāle, is, n., the private parts:

sanguinis pars per naturale descendit,

Cels. 5, 26, 13; 7, 26, 1 al.—More freq. plur., nātūrālĭa, ĭum, n., in same sense, Cels. 4, 21 init.; 5, 20, 4; 6, 18, 2 al.; Col. 6, 27, 10; Just. 1, 4, 2.—

Of or concerning nature, natural:

naturales quaestiones,

Cic. Part. 18, 64:

historia, Plin. H. N. praef. § 1: philosophia,

Isid. Orig. 2, 24, 12.—

Opp. to fictitious, natural, real:

philosophi duos Joves fecerunt, unum naturalem, alterum fabulosum,

Lact. 1, 11. —Hence, adv.: nātūrālĭter, naturally, conformably to nature, by nature:

nec vero umquam animus hominis naturaliter divinat,

Cic. Div. 1, 50, 113:

alacritas naturaliter innata,

Caes. B. C. 3, 92:

inter naturaliter dissimillimos,

Vell. 2, 60, 5; Plin. 11, 37, 47, § 130:

profluere (urinam),

Cels. 7, 26, 1; Hirt. B. Alex. 8:

est aliquid in omni materiā naturaliter primum,

Quint. 3, 8, 6.

1) C. Р. Secundus( Major), римск. естествоиспытатель, автор «Naturalis Historia» в 37 книгах (23—79 гг. н. э.)

2) C. P. Caecilius( Junior), племянник предыдущего, автор «Epistulae» и «Panegyricum Trajani» (62— 113 гг. н. э.)

3) P. Valerianus, врач времён императора Константина

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