Definitions for Pliny

Pliny Plin·y

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IPA: /ˈplɪn i/

Pliny is a 5 letter English word.

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Definitions for Pliny

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  1. ("the Elder"; Gaius Plinius Secundus) a.d. 23–79, Roman naturalist, encyclopedist, and writer.
  2. his nephew (“the Younger,” Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus) a.d. 62?–c113, Roman writer, statesman, and orator.

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It is of Pliny the naturalist, not of Pliny the letter-writer, that we are now speaking.

Pliny the Elder considered their plumbing to be the greatest accomplishment of the Roman Empire.

Pliny also 6: 31-36, locates the western Ethiopians somewhere in the Atlantic.

Pliny mentions this statue as the admiration of the age in which he flourished.

Already in Pliny's time the glories of the Elne had become tradition.

The natural history of the ancients is not enshrined in Aristotle and Pliny.

The historian Pliny the Elder describes owning agate cups as a sign of wealth and luxury.

In one family alone, in the time of Pliny, there were 4116 slaves.

In the time of Pliny it had become a dismal and silent place.

Pliny says that the memory of these evocations is preserved among the priests.

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