Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23 – August 25, AD 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 in the field, he wrote …

Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 Masehi – 25 Agustus 79) atau Plinius yang Tua ( bahasa Latin: Plinius Maior ), adalah penulis, pengamat alam, filsuf, serta komandan armada darat dan laut dari masa awal Kekaisaran Romawi. Ia adalah kawan dekat dari Kaisar Titus Vespasianus . Karya monumentalnya, Naturalis Historia ( Sejarah Alam ), menjadi ...

Pliny the Elder or Gaius Plinius Secundus. Pliny the Elder: an imaginative 19th century portrait. No contemporary depiction of Pliny has survived. Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 AD – 25 August 79 AD), 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 ...

Pliny the Elder In Middle Ages the rhinoceros became synonymous with the unicorn. People like Saint Gregory and Albertus Magnus cited the boxwood color and the enmity to elephants right before or after their admiration to virgins. The Arabs took the fight with the elephant as the central trait of the karkadann. It is frequently overlooked that Pliny refers to two kinds of unicorns, not …

蓋乌斯·普林尼·塞孔杜斯（拉丁語： Gaius Plinius Secundus ，23年－79年8月24日），常稱为老普林尼或大普林尼，古羅馬 作家、博物学者、军人、政治家，以《自然史》 （一译《博物志》 ）一書留名後世。. 老普林尼是罗马骑士与元老院议员加伊乌斯·凯奇利乌斯的外孫。 他出生在科莫，而 …

Pliny, the beer has now become one of our flagship brews! Pliny the Elder was immortalized by his nephew, Pliny the Younger, who wrote about his uncle succumbing to ash and smoke during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D. while rescuing people. Cheers to the scholar, historian, officer, writer, and Roman Naturalist- Pliny the Elder ...

Pliny the Elder, who was a Roman Naval Commander, and Colossus of Natural Philosphy, and lived between the years 0023 or 0024 & 0079, spelleth-out for us most admirabobbly what a bunch o' malarky Flatwitstry is. Here's an extract from his great treatise on Natural Philosphy - more specifically, from .

가이우스 플리니우스 세쿤두스. 가이우스 플리니우스 세쿤두스 또는 대플리니우스 ( 라틴어: Gaius Plinius Secundus Major, 23년 ~ 79년 8월 24일 )는 고대 로마 의 박물학자, 정치인, 군인이다. 로마 제국 의 해외 영토 총독을 역임하는 한편, 자연계를 아우르는 백과사전 ...

Biografia. Escritor, historiador, gramático, administrador e oficial romano. Era filho de um equestre, cavaleiro romano, e da filha do senador Caio Cecílio de "Novum Comum" nascido em Cosme na Cisalpina.Plínio estudou em Roma e ingressou na carreira militar, servindo primeiramente na África e depois assumindo como oficial o comando de uma tropa de …

Pliny, the Elder: Natural history; an account by a Roman of what Romans knew and did and valued.Compacted from the many volumes of the Historia naturalis by Loyd Haberly. (New York : Ungar, [1957]), also by Loyd ed Haberly (page images at HathiTrust) Pliny, the Elder: The natural history of Pliny.