Collection of Remarkable Facts

—who, we see, does not prevent us from establishing that he was the one who reduced Pliny to the form of a geography in the Hadrianic age. For the matter will always return to Varro as the author of authors; yet I would not believe that Censorinus, Solinus, and Macrobius themselves read the volumes of Varro, which were learned beyond the fashion of their own age. — Finally, regarding the old additions to the seventh book of Pliny (7, 55, 73, 74, 91, 122, 123), which critics of Pliny have often debated over these years—which are certainly in large part not inferior to the Plinian ones, but found in only one or another manuscript, especially in the Vesontinus Chiffleti, and there only in the margin—it is easy to trace them back to that other, augmented edition of Pliny, especially since it is established from Solinus that the person who curated this also diligently reworked Pliny’s book on man.