"Later on, Scheller and Freund realised that Pliny didn’t say what Facciolati-Forcellini claimed he did, but they liked the idea so they instead supported it"
I wonder, how many historical so-called facts are similarly based on a whim of some historiographer or other? We should take everything with a grain of salary... I mean, salt. :)
"Later on, Scheller and Freund realised that Pliny didn’t say what Facciolati-Forcellini claimed he did, but they liked the idea so they instead supported it"
I wonder, how many historical so-called facts are similarly based on a whim of some historiographer or other? We should take everything with a grain of salary... I mean, salt. :)