Pliny
Plln'y [Fr. Punk, plen ; It. Plinio, plee'ne-o] THE
Elder, (or, more fully, Ca'ius Plin'ius Secun'dus,)
a celebrated Roman naturalist, was born at Verona, or,
according to some authorities, Novum Comum, (the
modern Como,) in 23 a.d. He served in the army in
Germany, under Lucius Pomponius, and returned to
Rome about the age of thirty. He studied la...
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Autocrates was an Ancient Athenian poet of the old comedy. One of his plays is mentioned by Suidas and Aelian.[1] He also wrote several tragedies. [2]
The Autocrates quoted by Athenaeus[3] seems to have been a different person....
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Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 AD – August 25, 79), better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural
philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian.
Spending most of his spare time studying, writing or investigating natural and geographic phenomena i...
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Gaius Plinius Secundus, called the Elder. A Roman
representative of encyclopaedic learning, born A.D. 23, at
Novum Comum (Como), in Upper Italy. Although throughout his
life he was almost uninterruptedly occupied in the service
of the State, yet at the same time he carried on the most
widely extended scientific studies to which he laboriously ...
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