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Definition of Pliny the Elder
1. Noun. Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pliny The Elder
Literary usage of Pliny the Elder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... his days as admiral of the fleet at Misenum, as is so thrillingly related in
Pliny the Elder a famous letter of his nephew cited in the next article. ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1902)
"... his days as admiral of the fleet at Misenum, as is so thrillingly related in
Pliny the Elder a famous letter of his nephew cited in the next article. ..."
3. The Traditions of European Literature: From Homer to Dante by Barrett Wendell (1920)
"... Ovid, and Livy —that the story still seems principally decadent. IV LITERATURE
UNDER THE FLAVIAN EMPERORS Pliny the Elder; QUINTILIAN; SILIUS ITALICUS; ..."
4. The Traditions of European Literature: From Homer to Dante by Barrett Wendell (1920)
"IV LITERATURE UNDER THE FLAVIAN EMPERORS Pliny the Elder; QUINTILIAN; SILIUS
ITALICUS; VALERIUS FLACCUS; STATIUS Between the accession of Vespasian and the ..."
5. The Traditions of European Literature: From Homer to Dante by Barrett Wendell (1920)
"... Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and Livy —that the story still seems principally decadent.
IV LITERATURE UNDER THE FLAVIAN EMPERORS Pliny the Elder; QUINTILIAN; ..."
6. A history of the Romans under the empire by Charles Merivale (1865)
"Pliny the elder.—Pliny the younger.—Villas of the nobility. — The Laurentine and
Tuscan of Pliny. ..."
7. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... his days as admiral of the fleet at Misenum, as is so thrillingly related in
Pliny the Elder a famous letter of his nephew cited in the next article. ..."
8. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1902)
"... his days as admiral of the fleet at Misenum, as is so thrillingly related in
Pliny the Elder a famous letter of his nephew cited in the next article. ..."
9. The Traditions of European Literature: From Homer to Dante by Barrett Wendell (1920)
"... Ovid, and Livy —that the story still seems principally decadent. IV LITERATURE
UNDER THE FLAVIAN EMPERORS Pliny the Elder; QUINTILIAN; SILIUS ITALICUS; ..."
10. The Traditions of European Literature: From Homer to Dante by Barrett Wendell (1920)
"IV LITERATURE UNDER THE FLAVIAN EMPERORS Pliny the Elder; QUINTILIAN; SILIUS
ITALICUS; VALERIUS FLACCUS; STATIUS Between the accession of Vespasian and the ..."
11. The Traditions of European Literature: From Homer to Dante by Barrett Wendell (1920)
"... Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and Livy —that the story still seems principally decadent.
IV LITERATURE UNDER THE FLAVIAN EMPERORS Pliny the Elder; QUINTILIAN; ..."
12. A history of the Romans under the empire by Charles Merivale (1865)
"Pliny the elder.—Pliny the younger.—Villas of the nobility. — The Laurentine and
Tuscan of Pliny. ..."
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