Meaning of Pliny | Babel Free

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1. An ancient Roman praenomen.
2. Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (23–79 AD): an ancient Roman nobleman, scientist and historian, author of Naturalis Historia, "Pliny's Natural History".
3. Pliny the Younger, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (63–c. 113): an ancient Roman statesman, orator, and writer, a great-nephew of Pliny the Elder.

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“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.”

“Of Q. Curtius, the Demosthenes (both), Eutropius, Horace (first with a date⟳), Homer, Justin, Livy, the two Plinies, Quintilian, Martial, Tacitus, and Virgil, the first editions; but my friend must not be allowed to have⟳ a succession of nights of undisturbed repose till he possesses the first Horace, and the first Roman edition of Virgil.”

“The Scythian collection is designed not just to echo a past civilization, recorded in the classical works of Herodotos and Pliny; it is also intended as a clarion call⟳ to the Russians to look⟳ to their jewelry heritage and their wealth of precious stones.”

“I will leave⟳ off all my childish fooleries and diversions, and set⟳ about studying with such a rage, that when you come⟳ back next year, you may find⟳ the tongue I have⟳ now in my mouth more forky than that of some serpents mentioned by Pliny the naturalist.”

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