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Pliny the Elder

102 words, approx. 1 pages

Pliny the Elder 23-79 Roman scholar and writer who produced a comprehensive encyclopedia of zoology and botany, as well as astronomy, geography, and other topics. In the encyclopedia, Historia Natural... Read more

Pliny the Elder

500 words, approx. 2 pages

Pliny the Elder 23-79 Roman Scholar Although only one of his works, Natural History, has survived, Pliny the Elder became famous for that work. Natural History was a 37-volume encyclopedia that covere... Read more

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Pliny the Elder

538 words, approx. 2 pages

Pliny the Elder (23-79) was a Roman encyclopedist. His greatest and only surviving work, the Natural History, has been called one of the most influential books ever written in Latin.Pliny whose full n... Read more

Pliny the Elder

3,512 words, approx. 12 pages

Life is uigilia, wrote C. Plinius Secundus in Historia naturalis (Natural History, pref. 18), by which the old soldier meant that life is being on watch and on duty. The highest duty and the path of d... Read more