Pliny in a sentence

According to Pliny the Elder Pliny, Natural History XIX.46.

Although Pliny the Elder mentions a Halieutica by Ovid, which was composed at Tomis near the end of Ovid's life, modern scholars believe Pliny was mistaken in his attribution and that the poem is not genuine.

A statement by Pliny the Younger that his uncle was offered 400,000 sesterces for his manuscripts by Larcius Licinius while he (Pliny the Elder) was procurator of Hispania makes it the most certain of the three.

Pliny adds "sideboards and one-legged tables" to the list, Livy, 39.6-7: cf Pliny, Historia Naturalis, 34.14.

Pliny attributes the invention of the triumph to "Father Liber " (identified with Dionysus): see Pliny, Historia Naturalis, 7.57 (ed.

Pliny even furnished that secretary with gloves and long sleeves in winter so that his writing hand would not stiffen with cold, and he subsequently would be unable to take notes (as is detailed by Pliny the Younger in 'avunculus meus').

Pliny's uncle Pliny the Elder was in command of the Roman fleet at Misenum, and had meanwhile decided to investigate the phenomenon at close hand in a light vessel.

Suetonius may have served on Pliny’s staff when Pliny was Proconsul of Bithynia Pontus (northern Asia Minor ) between 110 and 112. Under Trajan he served as secretary of studies (precise functions are uncertain) and director of Imperial archives.

Moreover, Pliny tells us that Cicero’s wife, Terentia, lived to 103. Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of both France and England at different times in the 12th century, died a week shy of her 82nd birthday.

Pliny tells us that cloud rose into the sky on the ninth day before the Kalends of September (which would be 24 August, as we count it).

Pliny the Younger advertises itself.

The landowner, Gennaro Matrone, had a hunch that these were the remains of Pliny the Elder (the Younger wrote of his uncle’s body lying as if asleep on the day after the eruption), but his theory was laughed off in the press.

Pliny the Elder (the Roman savant and naturalist) used the word to describe the leaping of fleas and frogs.

The company -- famed for its Pliny the Younger cult beer -- wanted something smaller, but wineries had already snapped up most, said co-owner Natalie Cilurzo.

According to Pliny, a Roman pound (convert) of cassia, cinnamon, or serichatum cost up to 300 denarii, the wage of ten months' labour.

According to Pliny, garlic and onions were invoked as deities by the Egyptians at the taking of oaths.

According to Pliny 's evidence, Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II) had destroyed Kapisa in Capiscene Naturalis Historia, VI, 25, 92 which was a Kamboja city.

According to Syme, Pliny may have been "successor to Valerius Paulinus", procurator of Gallia Narbonensis (southeastern France), early in AD 70. He seems to have a "familiarity with the provincia", which, however, might otherwise be explained.

After being first tutored at home, Pliny went to Rome for further education.

After mentioning the crossing (navigatio) from Berrice to Tyle, Pliny makes a brief statement that: A Tyle unius diei navigatione mare concretum a nonnullis Cronium appellatur.