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...

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...

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...

Gorillai as the gorilla. The text was known to the Roman Pliny the Elder (c. 23–79) and the Greek Arrian of Nicomedia (c. 86–160). While the power of Carthage...

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...

(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...

Aristotle referred to the bird as kinnamômon orneon. Pliny the Elder adopted a more skeptical view of the cinnamon bird, erroneously named cinnamolgus. He...

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...

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...

Look up Pliny in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pliny may refer to: Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE), ancient Roman nobleman, scientist, historian, and author...

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...

Riley, eds. (1855). The Natural History. Pliny the Elder. London: Taylor and Francis. "Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, Book XII. The Natural History...

suggests that the pyramid could be entered at this time. The Roman writer Pliny the Elder, writing in the first century AD, argued that the Great Pyramid...

news of Pliny the Elder. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, was in command of the Roman fleet at Misenum and had meanwhile decided to investigate the phenomenon...

Pliny the Elder and Cicero, and Ἀργεῖος (lit. "The Argive", trans. "of Argos") by others like Plato and Pausanias. He is sometimes called the Elder,...

Gracchus, and Cornelius Scipio. Seneca the Younger refers to "adulterers admitted in droves"; Pliny the Elder calls her an “exemplum licentiae” (NH 21...

course, and Opici, a dirtier name than the rest. I have forbidden you to deal with doctors. — Quoted by Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.13–14. Carmen...

bodies. In AD 77–79, the classical writer Pliny the Elder published his thirty-seven volumes of encyclopedic works known as the Natural History containing...

historian Pliny the Elder, who later witnessed the destruction of Pompeii. The horse trappings were found in the early nineteenth century at the Roman city...

to the interactions between South India and Persia, the Middle East, North Africa, and the (Greek and Roman) Mediterranean region. Pliny the Elder, in...

with Alexander legends, as in the Alexander Romance, the Syriac Alexander Romance, and the Qissat Dhulqarnayn. Pliny the Elder (23 AD – 25 August 79 AD),...

harvest and the unusually high quality of wine produced, some of the vintage's best examples were being enjoyed over a century later. Pliny the Elder wrote...

Count Palatine. Pliny, Natural History, 1476. Printed in Venice by Nicolas Jenson. 1,025 copies (1,000 paper, 25 vellum). The Pliny the Elder text was printed...

stinging nettle is a poultice soaked in boiled bay leaves. The Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder listed a variety of conditions which laurel oil was supposed...

The Histories of Pliny the Elder is a parody of the occupation of Britain by the Romans, from series seven of the 1950s BBC radio comedy, The Goon Show...

dedicated to Eos Erigineia. The generic name is the Latin term for a plant sacred to the ancient Romans. Pliny the Elder describes verbena presented on...

available via Perseus Project. Pliny the Elder, Natural History XX.iii Archived 5 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine. Pliny the Elder, Natural History XX.iv Archived...

noteworthy among the letters are two in which he describes the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 during which his uncle Pliny the Elder died (Epistulae...

according to Pliny the Elder; but for Aulus Gellius Volturnus was the equivalent of the southeast wind Euronotus. In the Latin poems, the name Eurus is...

character named Phoebus. The Romans also believed that shaving one's head was necessary for diagnosing certain illnesses. Pliny the Elder suggested many possible...