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Pliny the Elder   /plˈɪni ðə ˈɛldər/   Listen
Pliny the Elder

noun
1.
Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79).  Synonyms: Gaius Plinius Secundus, Pliny.






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"Pliny the elder" Quotes from Famous Books



... notice the passages which have been supposed to controvert the account we have given of the completion of the canal between the Nile and the Red Sea. The first is a passage of Pliny the Elder, which asserts that Ptolemy Philadelphus only carried the canal to the bitter lakes. "Ex quo navigabilem alveum perducere in Nilum, qua parte ad Delta dictum decurrit, sexagies et bis centena mill. passuum intervallo, (quod inter flumen et Rubrum mare interest,) primus omnium Sesostris Aegypti ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Vol. 56, No. 346, August, 1844 • Various

... thought you familiar with certain events. You are forgetting, then, the passage where Pliny the Elder speaks of the library of Carthage and the treasures which were accumulated there? In 146, when that city fell under the blows of the knave, Scipio, the incredible collection of illiterates who bore the name of the Roman Senate had only the profoundest contempt for these riches. ...
— Atlantida • Pierre Benoit



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