[Sca-cooks] watermelons and Pliny continued

[Johnna Holloway]

I supplied the texts tonight based on the Harvard 
Loeb editions through their database. I cannot check the Dalby citations except through the Google Books entry on watermelons. The bibliography is not up. When I find and unbox the actual books, then I can check Dalby. I have no idea why the Dalby entry refers to Pliny in such a way. Maybe someone else owns the books and can check, but I doubt it. Interest in owning actual reference volumes is waning. 
Like I suggestsd, we can query the author and ask.

Johnna

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> On Jul 26, 2015, at 11:09 PM, JIMCHEVAL at aol.com wrote:
> 
> Again, you've cited these references yourself. Is it unreasonable to ask  
> you to provide the corresponding texts? If one had to write every author to  
> track down their references, research would become a pretty intractable  
> enterprise.
> And again, I tried to find the Pliny reference and don't even see those  
> chapters. So if you're going to cite them as references, please, find them. 
> This really shouldn't vary by edition. Pliny's Natural History is divided  
> into books which are then divided into chapters. The standard references  
> are to the book and the chapter or chapters. So this isn't a problem of 
> finding  the right page number.
> 
> Jim  Chevallier
> _www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/) 
> 
> In a message dated 7/26/2015 7:53:40 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
> johnnae at mac.com writes:
> 
> When I  locate them, I'll check the editions and actual citations in his  
> bibliographies. Then once that is confirmed we can write to Dalby and ask  
> about the references. Or perhaps you'd like to go ahead and ask him directly  
> yourself
> 
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