Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Minor Peculiarities of Nature
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 7.80 (tr. Mary Beagon):
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But minor peculiarities of nature take many forms and are very common. Drusus' wife, Antonia, for example, did not spit and the poet and one-time consul, Pomponius, never belched.Cf. Solinus 1.74 (p. 18 Mommsen):
sed haec parva naturae insignia in multis varia cognoscuntur; ut in Antonia Drusi numquam exspuisse, in Pomponio consulari poeta non ructasse.
Pomponium poetam consularem virum numquam ructuasse habetur inter exempla: Antoniam Drusi non spuisse percelebre est.
