pliny : Idioms & Phrases

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pliny the elder

  • noun Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79)
    Gaius Plinius Secundus; Pliny.
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pliny the younger

  • noun Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62-113)
    Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus; Pliny.
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