PLINY THE ELDER (GAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS)

PLINY THE ELDER (GAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS)
(AD 23–AD 79)
   The Roman writer and polymath who recorded some information on Etruscan religious interpretation of lightning in his Historia Naturalis.

Historical Dictionary of the Etruscans. .

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  • Gaius Plinius Secundus — noun Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23 79) • Syn: ↑Pliny, ↑Pliny the Elder • Instance Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author …   Useful english dictionary

  • Pliny the Elder — noun Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23 79) • Syn: ↑Pliny, ↑Gaius Plinius Secundus • Instance Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author …   Useful english dictionary

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  • Pliny — noun 1. Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62 113) • Syn: ↑Pliny the Younger, ↑Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus • Instance Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author 2. Roman author of an …   Useful english dictionary

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