Lucius Cornelius Bocchus was a Lusitanian from

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who wrote about natural history. Ancient authors mention his writings, which are otherwise lost.

Pliny the Elder Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/2479), called Pliny the Elder (), was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic '' ...

provides an excerpt from the chronicle of Cornelius Bocchus and mentions him as one of his sources.Plin ''HN'' 37.24.5 http://latin.packhum.org/loc/978/1/2664/620-637

Sources

Delporte, Frédéric. Les minéraux : l'histoire de leur commerce

Historia da Lingua Portuguesa. Revista Lusitana. vol XXV, N 1-4

References

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