Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus, better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian...
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wine common vino
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
wine vino
In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)
wine kind drink
The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
wine insanity crime
Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
dream morning wine
Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
sadness wine care
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
wine body culinary
Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
wine truth-comes-out
Truth comes out in wine.
wine men water
The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
wine
In wine, there's truth.
dog fall wine
Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison.
certainty
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
land four messengers
Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows, when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work.
sea way causes
...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.