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. sect. 148, and Ælian in his "Various Histories" relate the same fact as to the dogs drinking from the Nile. "To treat a thing as the dogs do the Nile" was a common proverb with the ancients, signifying to do it superficially.

[716-1] See Longfellow, page 612.

[716-2] Also alluded to by Horace, Satires, ii. 3, 299; Catullus, 22, 21; and Persius, 4, 24.

[716-3] See Horace, page 706.

PLINY THE ELDER. 23-79 A. D.

(_Translation by J. Bostock, M. D., and H. T. Riley, B. A., with slight alterations._[716-4])

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

_Natural History.