Frases de Plinio el Viejo
Plinio el Viejo
Fecha de nacimiento: 23 d.C.
Fecha de muerte: 25. Agosto 79 d.C.
Otros nombres:Starší Plinius,Plinio il Vecchio
Gayo Plinio Segundo , conocido como Plinio el Viejo , fue un escritor, científico, 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 con sus propios descubrimientos, incluyendo seres y regiones fantásticas de la mitología grecolatina.
Frases Plinio el Viejo
„It was a custom with Apelles, to which he most tenaciously adhered, never to let any day pass, however busy he might be, without exercising himself by tracing some outline or other,—a practice which has now passed into a proverb. It was also a practice with him, when he had completed a work, to exhibit it to the view of the passers-by in his studio, while he himself, concealed behind the picture, would listen to the criticisms…. Under these circumstances, they say that he was censured by a shoemaker for having represented the shoes with one latchet too few. The next day, the shoemaker, quite proud at seeing the former error corrected, thanks to his advice, began to criticise the leg; upon which Apelles, full of indignation, popped his head out and reminded him that a shoemaker should give no opinion beyond the shoes, —a piece of advice which has equally passed into a proverbial saying.“
— Pliny the Elder
Book XXXV, sec. 84.
„It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.“
— Pliny the Elder
Book XIV, sec. 141.
„With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.“
— Pliny the Elder
Book VII, sec. 5.
