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* Pliny the Younger ( died 113 ), ancient Roman statesman, orator, and writer ; nephew and adopted son of Pliny the Elder
When Pliny the Younger was 18, his uncle Pliny died attempting to rescue victims of the Vesuvius eruption, and the terms of the Elder Pliny's will passed his estate to his nephew.
Attilius ' questions and studies make Ampliatus suspicious of what Pliny the Elder and his nephew later discover — thousands of Roman sesterces at the bottom of the reservoir that should have gone to Rome and which Attilius ' predecessor had intended to retrieve once he'd emptied the reservoir.
* Pliny the Younger, nephew of the Elder

nephew and Younger
He was the only child of Agrippina the Younger through her first marriage to Domitius, and through her, he was great-great grandson of the Emperor Augustus, great-grandnephew and adoptive great-grandson of the Emperor Tiberius, nephew of the Emperor Caligula, as well as great-nephew and stepson of the Emperor Claudius.
Isidore of Miletus ’ nephew, Isidore the Younger, introduced the new dome design that can be viewed in the Hagia Sophia in present day Istanbul, Turkey.
After several other publications, some reflecting his interest in and knowledge of continental Europe, Bowdler's last work was an expurgated version of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published posthumously in 1826 under the supervision of his nephew and biographer, Thomas Bowdler the Younger.
* William II the Younger ( 918 – 926 ), nephew of William I, also Count of Auvergne.
Gray was the son of John de Gray the Elder of Eaton in Norfolk and nephew of John de Gray ( the Younger ), Bishop of Norwich.
Helmuth Johann Ludwig von Moltke (; 23 May 1848, Biendorf – 18 June 1916 ), also known as Moltke the Younger, was a nephew of Field Marshal Count Moltke and served as the Chief of the German General Staff from 1906 to 1914.
From 1530 he was connected to the court of Jan Łaski the Younger, the Primate of Poland and nephew of the elder Łaski.
He had no sons of his own and was succeeded by a nephew, William the Younger, son of his sister Adelinda.
Younger son Chris Orbach, who is an actor and singer, played Lennie Briscoe's nephew Ken Briscoe on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
" His godson and nephew, Didrik Pining the Younger, succeeded him in 1490, and was governor for the two following years.
: See also: Guillaume Coustou the Younger, nephew of Guillaume the Elder
Written between 408, after the Orestes, and 406 BC, the year of Euripides's death, the play was first produced the following year in a trilogy with The Bacchae and Alcmaeon in Corinth by his son or nephew, Euripides the Younger, and won the first place at the Athenian city Dionysia.
His father Francesco Giamberti was a woodworker and architect, much employed by Cosimo de Medici, and his brother Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and nephew Antonio da Sangallo the Younger were architects.
His father Francesco Giamberti was a woodworker, and his brother Giuliano da Sangallo and nephew Antonio da Sangallo the Younger were architects.
* Thomas Bowdler the Younger ( 1782-1856 ), Church of England priest and nephew and editor of Thomas Bowdler
The stories are told in first-person form by Senator Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger ( born c 91-95 BC ), nephew of Metellus Pius and member of the powerful Caecilius Metellus family of the Roman Senate.
They raised their nephew Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus, whose father was murdered by Empress Agrippina the Younger.
* Antonio da Sangallo the Younger ( or Antonio Cordiani ), ( 1484 – 1546 ), Florentine architect and the Elder's nephew
David, his son, and Isaiah di Trani the Younger, his nephew, followed in his footsteps, as did their descendants until the end of the seventeenth century.
William Pitt the Elder was his nephew and William Pitt the Younger his great-nephew.
* Benedetto Accolti the Younger ( 1497 – 1549 ), Italian cardinal, son of Michele Accolti, nephew of Pietro Accolti

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Thus Ambiorix king of the Eburones paid tribute and gave his son and nephew as hostages to the Atuatuci ( Gall.
These errors in strategic and political judgement gave Tiberius reason enough to recall his nephew.
Basarab gave his daughter in marriage to Ivan Alexander, a nephew of Tzar Michael Shishman of Bulgaria ( 1323 – 1330 ) who was an enemy of the Hungarian king.
Brodulf, the brother of Sichilde, petitioned Dagobert on behalf of his young nephew, but Dagobert assassinated him and gave his younger sibling Aquitaine.
* In 1524 the Spanish pilots ( ships ' captains ) Thomas Duran, Sebastian Cabot ( son of John Cabot ), and Juan Vespuccius ( nephew of Amerigo Vespucci ) gave their opinion to the Badajoz Junta, whose failure to resolve the dispute led to the Treaty of Saragossa.
When Claudius became emperor after his nephew ’ s assassination in 41 AD, he gave his mother the title of Augusta.
If the stories of rivalry are true, it may be surmised that Simonides's experiences at the courts of the tyrants, Hipparchus and Scopas, gave him a competitive edge over the proud Pindar and enabled him to promote the career of his nephew, Bacchylides, at Pindar's expense.
Charles gave his name to his nephew, Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, shown here giving homage to his patron.
Charles gave his nephew a particularly advanced education by the standards of the day, arranged for his marriage to Blanche of Valois and also bestowed his name upon Václav.
Gabriel Bethlen Voivode of Transylvania consolidated and enlarged the castle, and gave it to his nephew Stephen Betlen who lived here with his wife Mary Széchy, famed for her beauty.
In 1771, his nephew, Governor John Wentworth, gave it the name Fairfield, after Fairfield, Connecticut.
The nephew claimed his uncle gave him a written notice to the rights for movies on his deathbed.
The completed church gave the city of Dresden a distinctive silhouette, captured in famous paintings by Bernardo Bellotto, a nephew of the artist Canaletto ( also known by the same name ), and in Dresden by Moonlight by Norwegian painter Johan Christian Dahl.
He gave a legal education to his nephew John Penn, later one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
In 1145 Roger de Mowbray, nephew of William the Conqueror, gave the care of the Chapel at Sowerby to the Prior of Newburgh, and historical records show that several members of the ancient Family of Lassels, who were Lords of the Village for about 500 years, are buried in their own Chapel of St Oswald of Sowerby.
Aunt Branwell also gave them books and subscribed to Fraser's Magazine, less interesting than Blackwood's, but, nevertheless, providing plenty of material for discussion. Portrait of James Sheridan Knowles, in Fraser's Magazine 1838 She was a generous person who dedicated her life to her nieces and nephew, neither marrying nor returning to visit her relations in Cornwall, and she provided the funds for the project in Brussels.
As his sister Megan has sold Howl's books and Howl's nephew Neil gave the spell to his teacher, Miss Angorian, they go to the teacher's.
The death of his elder brother, Ferdinand, duke of Orleans, in 1842 gave him a position of greater importance as the natural regent in the case of the accession of his nephew, the young count of Paris.
Kamil Hamad gave the phone to his nephew Osama, knowing that Ayyash regularly used Osama's phones.
His nephew, also named John Willard, lived with them while attending Middlebury College which gave Emma Willard much inspiration in forming her educational views.
Shortly afterwards, the last Promnitz gave the land to his nephew, Frederic Erdmann, who had to obtain permission from Frederic The Great himself.
In 1873 a farm house in the parish known as Ascott Hall was bought by Baron Mayer de Rothschild he gave it to his nephew Leopold de Rothschild who employed the architect George Devey to enlarge the property into a substantial country house.
Normally, there was only one tsesarevich at a time ( an exception was Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich, who was accorded the title until death, even though law gave it to his nephew ), and the title was used exclusively in Russia.
Baron Mayer gave the house at Ascott to his nephew Leopold de Rothschild, who transformed it over the following decades into the substantial, but informal, country house it is today.

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