Excerpt from Pliny's Natural History, Vol. 1 of 37: In Thirty-Seven Books According to the custom of Roman youths, he served in the army, where he was honoured with the regards of Titus, son of Vespasian, and afterwards emperor, to whom he dedicated his great work on the History of Nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.