Natural History

On the gecko small lizard | Ch. 26. |
On cicadas | Ch. 27. |
On the wings of insects, beetles, and the remaining kinds of beetles | Ch. 28. |
On locusts | Ch. 29. |
On our native ants | Ch. 30. |
On Indian ants | Ch. 31. |
On the diversity of insects | Ch. 32. |
On animals born in wood and from wood | Ch. 33. |
On the animal that has no exit for its food | Ch. 34. |
On moths and gnats; and on their diversity | Ch. 35. |
On the pyralis a legendary insect said to live in fire or pyrausta | Ch. 36. |
Histories of the nature of animals by their individual limbs | Ch. 37. |
On blood, and whose dries most quickly, whose does not coagulate, whose is heaviest or most delicate, and whose is non-existent | Ch. 38. |
Whether there is sovereignty in the blood, the back, the hair, the breasts, and the clothing | Ch. 39. |
Notable animals that have breasts | Ch. 40. |
On milk; and from what it is not possible to make cheese | Ch. 41. |
On the diversity of cheeses | Ch. 42. |
The difference of the limbs of man from other animals | Ch. 43. |
On the multitude of apes | Ch. 44. |
On nails fingernails | Ch. 45. |
On claws also nails | Ch. 46. |
On the feet and claws of birds | Ch. 47. |
On the feet of insects, from two to a hundred | Ch. 48. |
On the pomiliones dwarfs/stunted ones and genitals | Ch. 49. |
On tails | Ch. 50. |
On voices | Ch. 51. |
On growing limbs; and the sayings of Aristotle on the life of man | Ch. 52. |
On the soul, the habit of animals, which things kill when tasted, the diet of man, and for what reasons it may not be digested | Ch. 53. |
On increasing or decreasing corpulence; and which things satisfy hunger and thirst by taste | Ch. 54. |
Total items, histories, and observations: 2270.

M. Varro, Hyginus, Scropha, Saserna, Celsus, Cor., Aemilius, Marcus, Virgil, Columella, Julius, Aquilius who wrote on Etruscan discipline, Tarquinius who did the same, Umbricius who did the same, Cato the Censor, Domitius Calvinus, Trogus, Melissus, Fabianus, Mutianus, Nigidius, Manilius, Oppius.

Aristotle, Democritus, Neoptolemus who wrote on honey. Aristomachus who did the same, Philistus who did the same, Nicander, Menecrates, Dionysius who translated Mago, Empedocles, Callimachus, King Attalus. Apollodorus who wrote on poisonous beasts, Hippocrates, Herophilus, Erasistratus, Asclepius, Themison, Posidonius the Stoic, Menander of Priene, Heraclides, Euphronius the Athenian, Theophrastus, Hesiod, King Philometor.

BOOK Twelve contains [treatises] on trees.
On the honor of trees, when the plane tree was first [brought] to Italy, and on their nature | Ch. 1. |
On the chamaeplatanus dwarf plane tree; and who pruned the gardens | Ch. 2. |
On foreign trees and the Assyrian apple citron | Ch. 3. |
On the trees of India and when ebony first [arrived] in Rome | Ch. 4. |
On the thorn and the Indian fig | Ch. 5. |
On the palm tree, unnamed Indian trees, and wool-bearing trees | Ch. 6. |
On pepper trees, the clove, and many others | Ch. 7. |
On the machir an aromatic bark and the trees of the Amana region | Ch. 8. |
On bdellium a tree gum/resin and the trees of the Persian Gulf | Ch. 9. |
On the trees of the Persian island and wool-bearing trees | Ch. 10. |
On the cotton tree and the trees from which clothing is made, and by what means the fruits of trees are formed | Ch. 11. |
On costus a fragrant root, nard, and the differences in nard | Ch. 12. |
On asarum, amomum, and cardamom | Ch. 13. |
On frankincense and the trees of frankincense | Ch. 14. |
On the nature of frankincense and its kinds | Ch. 15. |
On myrrh and the trees of myrrh | Ch. 16. |
On the kinds of myrrh, its nature, and its price | Ch. 17. |
On mastic, ladanum, bruta, henemo likely unidentified resins, strobos, and styrax | Ch. 18. |
On the fruitfulness of Arabia | Ch. 19. |
On cinnamon, xilicinnamum woody cinnamon, and cassia | Ch. 20. |
On isocinnamomum and cancamus a resin and asarum | Ch. 21. |
On ferichatum, gba alio unidentified aromatic substances, and myrobalan | Ch. 22. |
On phoenicobalanus date-nut and sweet calamus | Ch. 23. |