pliny
IPA: pɫˈɪni
Root Word: Pliny
noun
- An ancient Roman praenomen.
- Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (23–79 AD): an ancient Roman nobleman, scientist and historian, author of Naturalis Historia, "Pliny's Natural History".
- Pliny the Younger, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (63–circa 113): an ancient Roman statesman, orator, and writer, a great-nephew of Pliny the Elder.
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Examples of "pliny" in Sentences
- The selection from Pliny if flawed.
- Pliny obviously knew the real animal.
- Pliny is definitely in that tradition.
- Pliny and an inscription call it a colony.
- I will look into that as a possible image of Pliny.
- Please refer to the Pliny articles for confirmation.
- Log in to Reply yup those two, pshifty and pliny kyle8
- Pliny also refers to the murder, and was a contemporary.
- There is an allusion to it in the letter of Pliny the Younger.
- Pliny the Elder adopted a more skeptical view of the cinnamon bird.
- And ditto with any data in the Pliny the Elder article about Pliny the Younger.
- Re: What do people think of this new paper? by pliny on Sun May 11, 2008 5:21 am
- Now that you mention it, I have a vague memory of both pjshifty and pliny identifying themselves a couple of years ago.
- I tend to be conservative, but I would park him in the category of as good as (or better than) we can expect.pliny the elder(Quote)
- Admittedly most of what is below belongs to pliny, so the Kopywrong Kops will have to get in touch, but words have been changed to shelter the bunnies in the meantime.
- Re: What do people think of this new paper? by pliny on Tue Jun 03, 2008 5:56 am alexharv074 wrote:Having searched the web far & wide I am unable to find that anyone has actually contradicted M on this point.
- (August 9, 2008 5: 32: 00 AM CDT) according to pliny the elder*, it took 20,000 slaves to move/lift the obelisk to its base. pliny's natural history [specifically the thirty-sixth book] describes how the egyptians moved such obelisks.
- This first part comes almost completely from pliny but with contributions, in no particular order Eli it is Rabett Run and don't try and push in line, Barton, Joel, Arthur, Jochen, taavi, Robert and others who have all sharpened the arguments.