Today I will be mostly reading #Pliny the Elder 
Intriguing fact from #Pliny: gazelles sneeze when they see the Dog Star
Another intriguing fact: in 461 BC, when it rained meat from the sky, none of the meat went off #Pliny
“Thus it is in that in a vast range of locations and ways, fires blaze up naturally across the face of the earth" - Pliny concludes his list of volcanoes*
*He does not, of course, include Vesuvius in his list, because nobody realised it was a volcano.
*He does not, of course, include Vesuvius in his list, because nobody realised it was a volcano.
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