| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 2.24 | Plin. Nat. 2.25 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 2.26 |
The faces shine brilliantly, but they are never seen excepting when they are falling [Note] one of these darted across the
heavens, in the sight of all the people, at noon-day, when Germanicus Cæsar was exhibiting a show of gladiators [Note]. There are two kinds of them; those which are called lampades and those which are called bolides, one of which latter was seen during the troubles at Mutina [Note]. They differ from each other in this respect, that the faces produce a long train of light, the fore-part only being on fire; while the bolides, being entirely in a state of combustion, leave a still longer track behind them.
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 2.24 | Plin. Nat. 2.25 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 2.26 |
