Pliny the Elder Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.

  Pliny the Elder

  Wine, Men, Water

• All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat.

  Pliny the Elder

  Men, Water, Poison

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.396, Delphi Classics

• And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt and sprinkle it abroad with their mouthes because it dulceth and allaieth the unpleasant nature thereof, and carrieth a light with it.

  Pliny the Elder

  Light, Sea, Water

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