| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 11.47 | Plin. Nat. 11.48 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 11.49 |
Some few persons only are double-crowned. The bones of the head are flat, thin, devoid of marrow, and united with sutures indented like a comb. When broken asunder they cannot be united, but the extraction of a small portion is not necessarily fatal, as a fleshy cicatrix forms, and so makes good the loss. We have already mentioned, in their respective [Note] places, that the skull of the bear is the weakest of all, and that of the parrot the hardest.
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 11.47 | Plin. Nat. 11.48 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 11.49 |
