# Pliny the Elder 1855: The Natural History, Book 2, chapter 92: Lands which have been totally changed into seas

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# The Natural History, Book 2, chapter 92: Lands which have been totally changed into seas

Pliny the Elder, 1855. Taylor and Francis.

Pliny lists lands carried off by the sea, first "if we are to believe Plato, for an immense space where the Atlantic ocean is now extended", then Acarnania, Achaia and the straits.

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Primary text: Pliny's guarded mention of Atlantis, lost to the sea "if we are to believe Plato".

## Cited by on this site 2 records

[Every later ancient writer reviewed here who repeats Plato puts Atlantis at sea, in the Atlantic](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCPB804S9YE/every-later-ancient-writer-reviewed-here-who-repeats-plato)

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Pliny the Elder (1855). The Natural History, Book 2, chapter 92: Lands which have been totally changed into seas. Taylor and Francis. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137:book=2:chapter=92
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