Natural History (1491) - Page 17

On piety | Ch. 36. |
On the excellence of many arts: astrology, grammar, geometry | Ch. 37. |
Item: wondrous works of the artisan | Ch. 38. |
On services | Ch. 39. |
On the superiority of peoples | Ch. 40. |
On the happiness of a woman | Ch. 41. |
Various examples of fortune | Ch. 42. |
On those proscribed: L. Sulla, Quintus, Metellus | Ch. 43. |
On the other Metellus | Ch. 44. |
On the Divine Augustus | Ch. 45. |
Whom the gods judged most blessed | Ch. 46. |
Whom they ordered to be worshipped as a god while living | Ch. 47. |
On the longest spans of life | Ch. 48. |
On the variety of birth | Ch. 49. |
Various examples in diseases | Ch. 50. |
On the signs of death | Ch. 51. |
On those who were carried out for burial and returned to life | Ch. 52. |
On sudden deaths | Ch. 53. |
On burial | Ch. 54. |
On the soul, or on the shades, or on the empty words of peoples regarding the afterlife original: "de refutrētione" - likely a corruption of "refruticatione" or similar term relating to the return of the soul | Ch. 55. |
What each person discovered in life | Ch. 56. |
In what the first consensus of peoples consists | Ch. 57. |
On ancient letters | Ch. 58. |
When barbers first came to Rome | Ch. 59. |
When clocks first appeared | Ch. 60. |

Total items, histories, and observations: 747.

EX AVCTORIBVS.

Verrius Flaccus, Cn. Gellius, Licinius, Mutianus, Mutius, Masurius, Agrippinus, Claudius Caesar, M. Cicero, Asinius Pollio, Messala, Ruffus, Cornelius Nepos, Virgil, L. Cordus, Melissus, Sebosus, Cornelius Celsus, Valerius Maximus, Trogus, Nigidius Figulus, Pomponius Atticus, Asconius Pedianus, Sabinus, Cato the Censor, Fabius Vestalis.

EXTERNIS.

Herodotus, Aristeas, Baeton, Sigonus, Craterus, Agatharchides, Calliphanes, Aristotle, Nymphodorus, Apollodorus, Phylarchus, Damion, Megasthenes, Ctesias, Tauron, Eudoxus, Onesicritus, Clitarchus, Duris, Artemidorus, Hippocrates the physician, Asclepiades the physician, Hesiod, Anacreon, Theopompus, Hellanicus of Damascus, Ephorus, Epigenes, Berosus, Petosiris, Necepsos, Alexander Polyhistor, Xenophon, Callimachus, Democritus, Diulius, the historian Polyhistor, Strato (who wrote against the theories of Ephorus), Heraclides Ponticus, Asclepiades (who wrote the tragedies or 'tragic poems'), Stephanus, Hegesias, Archimachus, Thucydides, Mnestygition, Xenagoras, Metrodorus of Scepsis, Anticlides, Critodemus.

THE EIGHTH BOOK CONTAINS:

The natures of land animals that walk on feet.


On land animals: the praise of elephants and their sense	Ch. 1.
When they were first yoked	Ch. 2.
On their teachability	Ch. 3.
On their clemency, and that they understand their own perils, and on the ferocity of the tiger	Ch. 4.
On their intellect and memory	Ch. 5.
When they were first in Italy	Ch. 6.
Their battles	Ch. 7.
How they are captured	Ch. 8.
How they are tamed	Ch. 9.
On their birth and remaining nature	Ch. 10.
Where they are born and on the discord between them and dragons	Ch. 11.
On the cleverness of animals	Ch. 12.
On dragons	Ch. 13.
On the largest snakes and bulls likely referring to great serpents	Ch. 14.
On Scythian animals and snakes	Ch. 15.
On lions	Ch. 16.
On panthers	Ch. 17.
On the nature of the tiger, camels, the camelopard giraffe, and when they were first at Rome	Ch. 18.
On the chaos a legendary or unknown animal and the cephus a type of monkey	Ch. 19.
On the rhinoceros	Ch. 20.
On lynxes, sphinxes, the corcuta a hybrid beast, cercopitheci long-tailed monkeys, Indian bulls, the leucrocota a swift, hyena-like animal, the eale a legendary beast with swiveling horns, Aethiopian bulls, the manticora, the monoceros unicorn, the catoblepas, and the basilisk	Ch. 21.
On wolves	Ch. 22.
On snakes	Ch. 23.
On the ichneumon	Ch. 24.
On the crocodile and hippopotamus	Ch. 25.
Who first showed the hippopotamus and crocodiles at Rome, and on medicines discovered from animals	Ch. 26.
Which animals revealed which herbs: deer, lizards, swallows, tortoises, weasels, storks, bees, snakes, dragons, panthers, elephants, bears, deer, wood pigeons, cranes, and ravens	Ch. 27.
Prognostics of animals	Ch. 28.
Cities and peoples destroyed by small animals	Ch. 29.
On the hyena and the crocuta, the manticora, the beaver, and the otter	Ch. 30.
On frogs, seals, and the stellio a type of spotted lizard	Ch. 31.
On deer	Ch. 32.