Although there were earlier works of similar nature, by Marcus Terentius Varro for example, Pliny's was the only one to survive the Dark Ages.

Pytheas described his travels in a work that has not survived ; only excerpts remain, quoted or paraphrased by later authors, most familiarly in Strabo's Geographica, Pliny's Natural History and passages in Diodorus of Sicily's history.

Lorenzo, furthermore, is not only magnificent but, as was Alexander in Pliny's story, also magnanimous, as well.

Except for the geographical parts of Pliny's Historia naturalis ( where Mela is cited as an important authority ) the De situ orbis is the only formal treatise on the subject in Classical Latin.

) Pliny's idiocy drives Histor to insanity and, eventually, he murders him by stuffing him with eggs until he bursts, as he keeps using the word " egg " so it has no connection or relation to the context of what Histor was saying, ( only for Histor to be subsequently haunted by Pliny's equally pun-obsessed ghost ).

There was only one in Egypt and one in Asia Minor, as Pliny's letters to Trajan attest.

Finding ways to equate Pliny's Hilleviones, Tacitus ' Suiones and Jordanes ' Suehans was a goal pursued with special vigor in the 17th century by the Rudbeckians of the Swedish Hyperborean School, who hoped to show that Sweden was not only the home of the original Goths, but also the " womb of mankind ".

Among very few representations of Protesilaus, a sculpture by Deinomenes is just a passing mention in Pliny's Natural History ; the outstanding surviving examples are two Roman copies of a lost mid-fifth century Greek bronze original represent Protesilaus at his defining moment, one of them in a torso the British Museum, the other at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

According to the scholar Pliny, the city of Kapiśi ( also referred to as Kaphusa by Pliny's copyist Solinus and Kapisene by other classical chroniclers ) was destroyed in the sixth century BCE by the Achaemenid emperor Cyrus ( Kurush ) ( 559-530 BC ).

Pliny's obscure reference may be to the statue of Attus Navius in front of the Curia Hostilia: he stood with his lituus raised in an attitude that connected the Ficus Navia and the accompanying representation of the she-wolf to the Ficus Ruminalis, " as if " the tree had crossed from one space to the other.

The oldest reference to Himilco's voyage is a brief mention in Pliny's Natural History ( 2. 169a ) by the Roman scholar Pliny the Elder.

As those Gutones are put forward as Pliny's interpretation, not Pytheas ’, the early date is unconfirmed, but not necessarily invalid.

10 ) states that it grew in Syria ; and, according to Pliny's Natural History, it was also a native plant of the Niger River and the Euphrates.

In Pliny's Natural History, he states that the Egyptians are of the opinion that a King Harmais is buried inside it.

Others think that Pliny's date is correct, but that Ageladas did not make the statues of the Olympic victors mentioned by Pausanias until many years after their victories ; which in the case of three persons, the dates of whose victories are so nearly the same, would be a very extraordinary coincidence.

In the 1st century AD, the Iazyges settled in the west of Dacia, on the plain between the Danube and the Tisza rivers, according to some scholars ' interpretation of Pliny's text: “ The higher parts between the Danube and the Hercynian Forest ( Black Forest ) as far as the winter quarters of Pannonia at Carnuntum and the plains and level country of the German frontiers there are occupied by the Sarmatian Iazyges, while the Dacians whom they have driven out hold the mountains and forests as far as the river Theiss ”.

The area described by Tacitus has therefore sometimes been treated as being the equivalent of Pliny's island Scatinavia, although variants on Scandiae and Scandinavia are not names used by Tacitus for this region.

The elder Domitia Lucilla had inherited a great fortune ( described at length in one of Pliny's letters ) from her maternal grandfather and her paternal grandfather by adoption.

Pliny's date, 364 BC, is probably that of one of his most noted works.

It seems generally agreed that Pliny's account of the matter is correct in most of the particulars ; and there have been various dissertations on the way in which a statue of Venus could have been changed into one of Nemesis.

Milner observes that it was " one of the most popular Latin technical works from Antiquity, rivalling the elder Pliny's Natural History in the number of surviving copies dating from before AD 1300.

Milner observes that it was " one of the most popular Latin technical works from Antiquity, rivalling the elder Pliny's Natural History in the number of surviving copies dating from before AD 1300.

May I say that you have just demonstrated the truth of an old proverb -- the younger Pliny's, if memory serves me -- which, translated freely from the archaic Latin, says, ' The more haste, the less peed ' ''.

The account in Germania is inconsistent with Strabo's and Pliny's on a major point.

geographers as having no heads, their mouths and eyes being in their breasts, generally identified with Pliny's Blemmyae.

Another difficulty is that manuscripts of early writers were often incomplete: it is apparent that Bede had access to Pliny's Encyclopedia, for example, but it seems that the version he had was missing book xviii, as he would almost certainly have quoted from it in his De temporum ratione.

Claudius is the source for numerous passages of Pliny's Natural History.

In Pliny's Natural History ( 7. 198 ) he is credited with inventing carpentry " and with it the saw, axe, plumb-line, drill, glue, and isinglass ".

In Pliny's letter, written in AD 112, he asks Trajan if the accused Christians brought before him should be punished based on the name ‘ Christian ’ alone, or for crimes associated with the name.

Until that time, Pliny's work Historia Naturalis was the main source of information on metals and mining techniques, and Agricola made numerous references to the Roman encyclopedia.

Pliny's Natural History mentions four ancient labyrinths: the Cretan labyrinth, an Egyptian labyrinth, a Lemnian labyrinth and an Italian labyrinth.

Pliny's description of the exposed portion of the tomb is intractable ; Pliny, it seems clear, had not observed this structure himself, but is quoting the historian and Roman antiquarian Varro.

Pliny's Natural History recommended stewing them with honey and noted three dozen varieties.

Pliny's narrative dwells upon a gigantic portrait-bust of Pompey, a thing of “ eastern splendor ” entirely covered with pearls, and with the benefit of hindsight, has this disembodied head anticipate Pompey ’ s later defeat at Pharsalus and subsequent decapitation in Egypt.

However, the description of the wine would also fit, for example, Dureza, and Pliny's observation that the vines of Allobrogica was resistant to cold is not entirely consistent with Syrah.

Pliny's documentation was the last significant contribution to ichthyology until the European Renaissance.

Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him.

Pliny's father died at an early age when his son was still young ; as a result, Pliny probably lived with his mother.

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.

Pliny's career is commonly considered as a summary of the main Roman public charges and is the best-documented example from this period, offering proof for many aspects of imperial culture.

In Pliny's time, 49 independent communities still existed in Umbria, and the abundance of inscriptions and the high proportion of recruits in the imperial army attest to its population.

The word " alumen " occurs in Pliny's Natural History.