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    23/24 – AD 79), called Pliny the Elder (/ˈplɪni/), was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire...
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    The Natural History (Latin: Naturalis Historia) is a Latin work by Pliny the Elder. The largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire to...
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    better known as Pliny the Younger (/ˈplɪni/), was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and...
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    weakly through the cloud, encouraging Pliny and his mother to return home and wait for news of Pliny the Elder. The letter compares the ash to a blanket...
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    Aristotle referred to the bird as kinnamômon orneon. Pliny the Elder adopted a more skeptical view of the cinnamon bird, erroneously named cinnamolgus. He...
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    Herodotus, Lucan, Pliny the Elder, Pope Clement I, Lactantius, Ovid, and Isidore of Seville are among those who have contributed to the retelling and transmission...
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    historian Pliny the Elder, written in the 1st century AD. Speaking of mistletoe, he writes: We should not omit to mention the great admiration that the Gauls...
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    Roman writers such as Pliny the Elder and Varro – discussions presumably not intended as practical advice to farmers or craftsmen. The vast majority of classical...
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    Riley, eds. (1855). The Natural History. Pliny the Elder. London: Taylor and Francis. "Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, Book XII. The Natural History...
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  • (PDF) Pliny the Elder (1855), Natural History, Books 1-11, Perseus Project, translated by Henry T. Riley and John Bostock Pliny the Elder (1855), Natural...
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