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 ".

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.

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

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

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

Pliny's Natural History praised the cheese of Lozère:

Some scholars identify it with the Dirce bull mentioned in Pliny's Natural History, but this is disputed.

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 Pliny's Natural History, Ageladas of Argos was his teacher.

His most famous works according to Pliny's Natural History ( 34. 57-59 ) were a heifer, a dog ( canem, Cerberus?

5 ; Pliny's Natural Historyiv.

Provided with a human face and a scaly tail, as in Dante's vision of Geryon in Inferno xvii. 7 – 17, 25 – 27, hybrid monsters, more akin to the Manticore of Pliny's Natural History ( viii. 90 ), provided iconic representations of hypocrisy and fraud well into the seventeenth century, through an emblemmatic representation in Cesare Ripa's Iconologia.

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 this discussion of Pliny's Natural History Barbaro made 5000 corrections to the text.

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.

The name ' Evodia ' may in turn originate from the seven ' Haemodae ' of uncertain identification in Pliny's Natural History ( IV 16 ( 30 ) or Pomponius Mela's Chronographia ( III 6, 54 ).

* John J. Popovic, " Apelles, the greatest painter of Antiquity " Source quotes from Pliny's Natural History.

They also appear in Pliny the Elder's Natural History, together with Moses, as famous magicians of antiquity ; Pliny's citation is also referred to in Apuleius.

He continued translating and publishing his edition of Hippocrates ' writings, which was not completed until 1862, and he published a similar edition of Pliny's Natural History.

* Translation of Pliny's Natural History ( 1848 – 1850 )

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.

The greater part is taken from Pliny's Natural History and the geography of Pomponius Mela.

Pliny's own table of contents for his encyclopedic Historia naturalis (" Natural History ") may be viewed online in Latin and in English ( following dedication ).

Pliny's Natural History affirmed that the " Imperial Porphyry " had been discovered at an isolated site in Egypt in AD 18, by a Roman legionary named Caius Cominius Leugas.

Pliny's comment on a leader named Raetus is typical of mythologized origins of ancient peoples, and not necessarily reliable.

* Porsenna's Maze, Chiusi, Tuscany ( see Pliny's Italian labyrinth )

According to Pliny's Naturalis Historia, Aethusa is also the eponym of the Italian island which is now called Linosa

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.

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.

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.

In Pliny's only other mention of the Gutones, he states that the Vandals are one of the five races of Germany, and that the Vandals include the Burgodiones, the Varinnae, the Charini and the Gutones.

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

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.

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 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.