Cornelius Bocchus
Lucius Cornelius Bocchus was a Lusitanian[1] from Roman Hispania who wrote about natural history. [2] Ancient authors mention his writings, which are otherwise lost. Pliny the Elder provides an excerpt from the chronicle of Cornelius Bocchus and mentions him as one of his sources.[3]
Career
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Sources
[edit]- Delporte, Frédéric. Les minéraux : l'histoire de leur commerce
- Corpus Scriptorium Latinorum[usurped]
- Hofmann, Johann Jacob (1635-1706)
- Historia da Lingua Portuguesa. Revista Lusitana. vol XXV, N 1-4
References
[edit]- ^ João Luís Cardoso; Martin Almagro Gorbea (eds.). Lucius Cornelius Bocchus escritor lusitano da Idade de Prata da Literatura Latina. Real Academia de la Historia. pp. 330–. ISBN 978-84-15069-36-2.
- ^ The Fragments of the Roman Historians. Oxford University Press. pp. 635–. ISBN 978-0-19-927705-6.
- ^ Plin HN 37.24.5 http://latin.packhum.org/loc/978/1/2664/620-637