| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 2.101 | Plin. Nat. 2.102 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 2.103 |
Hence we may certainly conjecture, that the moon is not
unjustly regarded as the star of our life [Note]. This it is that replenishes the earth [Note]; when she approaches it, she fills all bodies, while, when she recedes, she empties them. From this cause it is that shell-fish grow with her increase [Note], and that those animals which are without blood more particularly experience her influence; also, that the blood of man is increased or diminished in proportion to the quantity of her light; also that the leaves and vegetables generally, as I shall describe in the proper place [Note], feel her influence, her power penetrating all things.
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 2.101 | Plin. Nat. 2.102 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 2.103 |
