Pliny Definition

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(L. name Gaius Plinius Secundus) A.d. 23-79; Rom. naturalist & writer.
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(L. name Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus) A.d. 62?-113?; Rom. writer & statesman: nephew of Pliny the Elder.
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Roman scholar and naturalist. He wrote the 37-volume Historia Naturalis. His nephew Pliny (originally Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, ad 62?–113?), known as “the Younger,” was a consul and writer whose letters provide valuable information about Roman life.
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  • He would thus have married and had at least one child, from whom the contemporary of Pliny was descended.

  • The colossus stood for fifty-six years, till an earthquake prostrated it in 224 B.C. Its enormous fragments continued to excite wonder in the time of Pliny, and were not removed till A.D.

  • Tridentum or Trent was in the time of Pliny included in the tenth region of Italy or Venetia, but he tells us that the inhabitants were a Raetian tribe.

  • Pliny knew that flies emerge from galls.

  • Even though this sea-route was known, the author of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, published after the time of Pliny, recites the old itinerary around the coast of the Arabian Gulf.

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