** Pliny Fisk Temple ( Francisco P. Temple )

** Pliny Fisk Temple ( Francisco P. Temple or F. P. T ) ( February 13, 1822 – April 27, 1880 )

Its name was changed by Lysimachus to Alexandria Troas, in memory of Alexander III of Macedon ( Pliny merely states that the name changed from Antigonia to Alexandria ).

The port is mentioned in Pliny the Elder's Natural History ( III. v ) and in Tacitus ' Histories ( III. 42 ), when Valens was forced to put into the port ( Fabius Valens e sinu Pisano segnitia maris aut adversante vento portum Herculis Monoeci depellitur ).

* Pliny Natural History III ( Books 8-111 ) ( Translated by H. Rackham ).

In these years, one of the military tribunes of the III Gallica is Pliny the Younger.

His Gallic origin is attested by Ausonius, and Pliny the Elder calls him Padi accola (" a dweller on the River Po ", Natural History III. 22 ).

Pomponius Mela ( Book III, Chapter 5 ), copied by Pliny the Elder, wrote that Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer, proconsul in Gaul, 59 BCE, got ' several Indians ' ( Indi ) as a present from a Germanic king.

Hispellum is mentioned in Pliny ( III. xiv. 113 ), Strabo ( V. 2. 10 ), and Ptolemy's Geography ( III. 1 ), but apparently by no earlier author: the town seems to have been established by Augustus, who at any rate founded a colony there ( Colonia Julia Hispellum ) as a reward for soldiers who fought on his side in the Perusine War.

* Pliny, Naturalis Historia, III, 3.

The town is of Etruscan origin ; its people are first referred to in Pliny, NH III. 114 ( Vettonenses ), then in other ancient authors and inscriptions.

The cognomen " Caesar " originated, according to Pliny the Elder, with an ancestor who was born by caesarean section ( from the Latin verb to cut, caedere, caes -).

Pliny says that Timaeus ( born about 350 BC ) believed Pytheas ' story of the discovery of amber.

Important figures like Pliny the Elder ( in Como ) and Virgil ( in Mantua ) were born here.

Pliny the Younger was born in Novum Comum ( Como, Northern Italy ), the son of Lucius Caecilius Cilo, born there, and wife Plinia Marcella, a sister of Pliny the Elder.

The most probable solution of the difficulty is that of Friedrich Thiersch, who thinks that there were two artists of this name ; one an Argive, the instructor of Phidias, born about 540 BC, the other a native of Sicyon, who flourished at the date assigned by Pliny and was confounded by the scholiast on Aristophanes with his more illustrious namesake of Argos.

According to Pliny, he was born with teeth, thus earning the cognomen Dentatus, " Toothy.

Olds was born in Geneva, Ohio, the youngest son of blacksmith and pattern-maker Pliny Fiske Olds and his wife Sarah Whipple Olds.

Pliny the Elder reports that Germanicus ' son, the future emperor Gaius ( Caligula ), was born " among the Treveri, at the village of Ambiatinus, above Koblenz ", but Suetonius notes that this birthplace was disputed by other sources.

Pliny even takes time to rebut a theory that every person has a star that rises when they are born and fades when they die, evidence that this was believed by some.

Among other compliments, Linnaeus has been called ( Prince of Botanists ), " The Pliny of the North ," and " The Second Adam ".

There are few direct testimonies to the language of the Cimbri: Referring to the Northern Ocean ( the Baltic or the North Sea ), Pliny the Elder states: " Philemon says that it is called Morimarusa, i. e. the Dead Sea, by the Cimbri, until the promontory of Rubea, and after that Cronium.

Early medieval writers often had fuzzy and imprecise impressions of both Ptolemy and Aristotle and relied more on Pliny, but they felt ( with one exception ), little urge to assume flatness.

77 AD ), Pliny provides a foundation myth for the Celtic settlement of Cisalpine Gaul in which a Helvetian named Helico plays the role of culture hero.

Ancient Romans, such as Pliny the Elder ( Natural History, 3. 5 ) and Varro ( cited by Pliny ), speculated that the name Lusitania was of Roman origin, as when Pliny says lusum enim liberi patris aut lyssam cum eo bacchantium nomen dedisse lusitaniae et pana praefectum eius universae: that Lusitania takes its name from the lusus associated with Bacchus and the lyssa of his Bacchantes, and that Pan is its governor.

Pliny adds that it has no nights at midsummer when the sun is passing through the sign of the crab ( summer solstice ), a reaffirmation that it is on the Arctic Circle.

Words with the same root appeared with related meanings: in Raetic plaumorati " wheeled heavy plough " ( Pliny ), and in Latin plaustrum " farm cart ", plōstrum, plōstellum " cart ", and plōxenum, plōximum " cart box ".

* Libyan Aegipanes ( goat-pans ), which according to Pliny the Elder lived in Libya, had human heads and torsos, and the legs and horns of goats, and were similar to the Greek god Pan.

The word vertebrate derives from the Latin word vertebratus ( Pliny ), meaning joint of the spine.

* Pliny the Elder ( 23 – 79 CE ), ancient Roman nobleman, scientist and historian, author of Naturalis Historia, " Pliny's Natural History "

* Pliny the Younger ( died 113 ), ancient Roman statesman, orator, and writer ; nephew and adopted son of Pliny the Elder

* Pliny Chase ( 1820 – 1886 ), American scientist, mathematician, and educator

* Pliny Earle I ( 1762 – 1832 ), American inventor who made wool and cotton carding machines

* Pliny Earle ( physician ) ( 1809 – 1892 ), American physician, psychiatrist, and poet, son of Pliny Earle I

* Epistulae ( Pliny ), the letters of Pliny the Younger

* Natural History ( Pliny ), an encyclopedia published by Pliny the Elder

In the year AD 77, Pliny the Elder wrote in his Naturalis Historia about the wines of Vienne ( which today would be called Côte-Rôtie ), where the Allobroges made famous and prized wine from a dark-skinned grape variety that had not existed some 50 years earlier, in Virgil's age.

The name is derived from the type genus Apium, which was originally used by Pliny the Elder circa 50 AD for a celery-like plant.

Pliny is presenting an archaic view, as in his time amber was a precious stone brought from the Baltic at great expense, but the Germans, he says, use it for firewood, according to Pytheas.

As the Eudoses are the Jutes, these names probably refer to localities in Jutland or on the Baltic coast, in which case their inhabitants would be Cimbri or Teutones for Pliny.

The accounts of historians Herodotus, Pliny the Elder, and Strabo suggest that boats were being used for commerce and traveling.

Although his work has been criticized for the lack of candor in checking the " facts ", some of his text has been confirmed by recent research, like the spectacular remains of Roman gold mines in Spain, especially at Las Medulas, which Pliny probably saw in operation while a Procurator there a few years before he compiled the encyclopedia.

Although many of the mining methods are now redundant, such as hushing and fire-setting, it is Pliny who recorded them for posterity, thereby helping us understand their importance in a modern context.

* Imperator ( as, for example, in Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia ).

Also often advanced as a possible context for 1 Peter is the trials and executions of Christians in the Roman province of Bithynia-Pontus under Pliny the Younger.

For instance, they interpret the exhortation to defend one ’ s faith “ with gentleness and reverence ” in 3: 15-16 as a response to Pliny executing Christians for the obstinate manner in which they professed to be Christians.

Pliny the Elder gives vivid examples of the popularity of gladiator portraiture in Antium and an artistic treat laid on by an adoptive aristocrat for the solidly plebeian citizens of the Roman Aventine:

Pliny is presenting an archaic view, as in his time amber was a precious stone brought from the Baltic at great expense, but the Germans, he says, use it for firewood, according to Pytheas.

According to Pliny the Elder, Necho's extension to the canal was approximately 57 English miles, equal to the total distance between Bubastis and the Great Bitter Lake, allowing for winding through valleys that it had to pass through.

Pliny the Elder writes that, in his time, the best location in Egypt for capturing this animal was in the Saite nome ; the animal could still be found along the Damietta branch after the Arab Conquest in 639.

According to Pliny the Elder, there were two kinds of villas: the villa urbana, which was a country seat that could easily be reached from Rome ( or another city ) for a night or two, and the Villa rustica, the farm-house estate permanently occupied by the servants who had charge generally of the estate.

Horseradish is probably the plant mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History under the name of Amoracia, and recommended by him for its medicinal qualities, and possibly the Wild Radish, or raphanos agrios of the Greeks.

" Pliny praises it as a source of fodder for farm animals, and this vegetable is not particular about the type of soil it grows in and because it can be left in the ground until the next harvest, it " prevents the effects of famine " for humans ( N. H. 18. 34 ).

Pliny is known for his hundreds of surviving letters, which are an invaluable historical source for the time period.

After being first tutored at home, Pliny went to Rome for further education.

Pliny the Younger confirms that he was a trustee for the largess " of my ancestors ".

The properties of lodestones and their affinity for iron were written of by Pliny the Elder in his encyclopedia Naturalis Historia.

Pliny the Elder recounts a fanciful derivation for the tribal name from the Greek ὄμβρος " a shower ", which had led to the confused idea that they had survived the Deluge familiar from Greek mythology, giving them the claim to be the most ancient race in Italy.