 | David Womersley - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 472 pages
...of mankind, passed without notice in an age of science and history. It happened during the lifetime of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have experienced...received the earliest intelligence, of the prodigy. ... A distinct chapter of Pliny is designed for eclipses of an extraordinary nature and unusual duration;... | |
 | J. B. Bury - History - 2005 - 261 pages
...of mankind, passed without notice in an age of science and history. It happened during the lifetime of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have experienced...collect. Both the one and the other have omitted to mentioB the greatest phenomenon to which the mortal eye has been witness since the creation of the... | |
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It happened during the lifetime of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have experienced the immediate effects, or received the earliest intelligence, of the prodigy. Each of these philosophers, in a laborious work, has recorded all the great phenomena... 
