When collating authorities I have found that the most professedly…

When collating authorities I have found that the most professedly reliable and modern writers have copied the old authors word for word, without acknowledgement.

In the original Latin

Scito enim conferentum auctores me deprehendisse a iuratissimis et proximis veteres transcriptos ad verbum neque nominatos.

Pliny the Elder

77 BC

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77 BC Classical antiquity

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Pliny the Elder

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Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, preface.

Original citation

Pliny the Elder. Historia Naturalis [Natural History]. 77 AD, dedication.

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