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

Sources

  • Delporte, Frédéric. Les minéraux : l'histoire de leur commerce
  • Corpus Scriptorium Latinorum
  • Hofmann, Johann Jacob (1635-1706)
  • Historia da Lingua Portuguesa. Revista Lusitana. vol XXV, N 1-4

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ The Fragments of the Roman Historians. Oxford University Press. pp. 635–. ISBN 978-0-19-927705-6.
  3. ^ Plin HN 37.24.5 http://latin.packhum.org/loc/978/1/2664/620-637


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