That reference, [6] is to Pliny's "Naturalis Historia", Book 2, parts 6 and 8. Using Wikisource's copy of Holland's 1847 translation, in part 8, discussing the various "wandering stars", this is in the description of Venus:
Now this planet, in greatnesse, goeth beyond all the other five: and so cleere and shining withall, that the beames of this one starre cast shaddowes upon the earth
Shadows cast by Venus, documented by Pliny the Elder, circa 77 CE.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Natural_History_of_Pliny_(Holland)/Book_2#8
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