Pliny the Elder

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Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 CE – August 25, 79), better known as Pliny the Elder, was an 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 an encyclopedic work, Naturalis Historia, which became a model for all such works written subsequently. Pliny the Younger, his nephew, wrote of him in a letter to the historian
Aliases: Gaius Plinius Secundus, 0080-00e2
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A pint of Pliny The Elder at Lucky Baldwin's marks the beginning of what I'm sure is going to be a brilliant weekend.
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Still at Tornado. Finished my Pliny The Younger, had an Elder, now drinking a Firestone Walker Velvet Merkin Stout.
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There is always something new out of Africa. -- Gaius Plinius Secundus
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