Pliny Synonyms

plĭnē
Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. pliny the elder
  2. Gaius Plinius Secundus
Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62-113)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. pliny the younger
  2. Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus

Pliny Sentence Examples

  • He would thus have married and had at least one child, from whom the contemporary of Pliny was descended.

  • The colossus stood for fifty-six years, till an earthquake prostrated it in 224 B.C. Its enormous fragments continued to excite wonder in the time of Pliny, and were not removed till A.D.

  • Tridentum or Trent was in the time of Pliny included in the tenth region of Italy or Venetia, but he tells us that the inhabitants were a Raetian tribe.

  • Pliny knew that flies emerge from galls.

  • Even though this sea-route was known, the author of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, published after the time of Pliny, recites the old itinerary around the coast of the Arabian Gulf.

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