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About Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus, 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.
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Born:
AD 23, Como, Italy
Died:
79 AD, Stabiae, near Pompei, Italy
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Shoemaker, stick to your last.
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Pliny the Elder
Natural History, Sutor, ne ultra crepidam
What men, in heaven’s name, can we set alongside these insects which are superior to men when it comes to reasoning? For they recognize only what is in the common interest.
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Pliny the Elder
Natural History (AD 77)
Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Pliny the Elder
Natural History
No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity, a patron, and even the praises of a friend, to recommend them to the notice of the world.
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Pliny the Elder
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