Pliny
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈplɪni/
- An ancient Roman praenomen.
- 1828, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 24 no. 147
- The two Plinys, Lucan, (though again under the disadvantage of verse) Petronius Arbiter, and Quintilian, but above all, the Senecas, (for a Spanish cross appears to improve the quality of the rhetorician) have left a body of rhetorical composition such as no modern nation has rivalled.
- 1828, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 24 no. 147
- Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (23–79 AD): an ancient Roman nobleman, scientist and historian, author of Naturalis Historia, "Pliny's Natural History".
- Pliny the Younger, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (63–ca. 113): an ancient Roman statesman, orator, and writer, a great-nephew of Pliny the Elder.
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