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Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus, known in English as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, scientist, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, procurator, and friend of the emperor Vespasian. Pliny wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia, a thirty-seven-volume work covering a vast array of topics on human knowledge and the natural world, which became an editorial model for encyclope…
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culture · Roman military commander and writer (AD23/24–79) · writer · historian · naturalist · poet · philosopher · art historian · civil servant · military commander · also Pliny the Elder, Caius Plinius Secundus, the Elder Pliny, Caius P. Secundus, Pliny, C. Plinius Secundus
Born 0020 · Died 0079 · Q82778
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2026· 4 entries
“The orator is trained from his very cradle and perfected.”
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Pliny the Elder - Naturalist, Historian, Scientist
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Los Angeles Times: How Polaroids, Proteus and Pliny the Elder helped Valeria Luiselli write her new book
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1979· 7 entries
“Haec est Italia diis sacra”
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“Opis: greckie powiedzenie używane w starożytności, znane w wersji: Co nowego z Afryki?, przytoczone przez Arystotelesa w Historii naturalnej zwierząt, VIII, 28.”
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“Znaczenie: z dodatkiem sceptycyzmu.”
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Died 0079.
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“Fortune favours the brave.”
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“É mesmo verdade que a maior parte dos males que ocorrem ao homem são provocados por ele próprio.”
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“Quasi quidquam infelicius sit homine cui sua figmenta dominantur (łac.)”
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1920· 1 entry
Born 0020.
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1859· 1 entry
Jacob Bigelow, after summarizing the information about Pliny's death contained in Pliny the Younger's letter to Tacitus, concluded that Pliny had died from apoplexy (stroke) or heart disease
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