Frases de Plinio el Viejo
Plinio el Viejo
Fecha de nacimiento: 23 d.C.
Fecha de muerte: 24. Agosto 79 d.C.
Otros nombres: Starší Plinius, Plinio il Vecchio
Gayo Plinio Segundo , conocido como Plinio el Viejo , fue un escritor, naturalista y militar latino. Realizó estudios e investigaciones en fenómenos naturales, etnográficos y geográficos, recopilados en su obra Naturalis historia, siendo modelo enciclopédico de muchos conocimientos hasta mediados del siglo XVII cuando sus estudios fueron sustituidos por investigaciones basadas en el Método Científico y el Empirismo moderno. Sus obras fueron la base de muchos exploradores occidentales como Odorico de Pordenone, Marco Polo, Antonio Pigafetta, Cristóbal Colón y Fernando de Magallanes, así como del conquistador español Hernán Cortés, quienes hacían coincidir las descripciones geográficas y etnológicas de Plinio[1][2] con sus propios descubrimientos,[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] incluyendo seres y regiones fantásticas de la mitología grecolatina.[10][11]
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Frases Plinio el Viejo
„Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.“
— Pliny the Elder, libro Naturalis historia
Book VII, sec. 4.
Naturalis Historia
„Fortune favours the brave.“
Attributed by Pliny the Younger to his uncle during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in which the Elder died
Quoted in [Pliny, translated by William Melmoth, Letters of Pliny, c.100 CE, eBook, 1927, Bibliobytes, Hoboken, NJ, English, ISBN 0585049971, LXV, to Tacitus http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2811/2811-h/2811-h.htm#link2H_4_0065, p. 48, Here he stopped to consider whether he should turn back again; to which the pilot advising him, "Fortune", said he, "favours the brave; steer to where Pomponianus is."]
Commonly quoted as "Fortune favours the bold".
Original: (la) Fortes Fortuna iuvat.
„When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.“
— Pliny the Elder, libro Naturalis historia
Book VIII, sec. 103.
Naturalis Historia
Original: (la) ruinis inminentibus musculi praemigrant...
„All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat.“
— Pliny the Elder, libro Naturalis historia
Book VII, sec. 15.
Naturalis Historia
„It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.“
— Pliny the Elder, libro Naturalis historia
Book VII, sec. 77.
Naturalis Historia
„In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.“
— Pliny the Elder, libro Naturalis historia
Book I, Dedication, sec. 22.
Naturalis Historia
„Everything is soothed by oil, and this is the reason why divers send out small quantities of it from their mouths, because it smooths every part which is rough.“
— Pliny the Elder, libro Naturalis historia
Book II, sec. 234.
Naturalis Historia
„To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.“
— Pliny the Elder, libro Naturalis historia
Book VII, sec. 2.
Naturalis Historia
„It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to man a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.“
— Pliny the Elder, libro Naturalis historia
Book VII, sec. 1.
Naturalis Historia
„Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she [Nature] abandon to cries and lamentations.“
— Pliny the Elder, libro Naturalis historia
Book VII, sec. 2.
Naturalis Historia
