Pliny

Speech parts

1. Pliny - Noun

2. Pliny - Proper noun

Meaning

Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62-113)

Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79)

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Bidnick gorges himself on Viagra, but the dosage makes him hallucinate and causes him to imagine he is Pliny the Elder. Woody Allen

You are a worm who thought himself a serpent just because you slither. But your power was not real, Pliny. It was all a dream. Time now to wake. Pierce Brown

[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A. D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't. Will Cuppy

Pliny tells us that Demokritos was instructed in magic by Ostanes the Mede. Osthanes

Pliny declares, as I hear, that he does not believe in the gods, but he believes in dreams; and perhaps he is right. Henryk Sienkiewicz

According to Syme, Pliny may have been "successor to Valerius Paulinus", procurator of Gallia Narbonensis (southeastern France), early in AD 70. He seems to have a "familiarity with the provincia", which, however, might otherwise be explained. Source: Internet

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