Pliny the Elder
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title:
Pliny the Elder
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Gaius Plinius Secundus, called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia, a comprehensive thirty-seven-volume work covering a vast array of topics on human knowledge and the natural world, which became an editorial model for encyclopedias. He spent most of his spare time studying, writing, and investigating natural and geographic phen
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1st-century Roman military commander and writer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder
date created:
2002-03-19T00:26:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T16:20:51Z
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