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Pliny's and uncle
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 and Pliny
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 the Elder ( 23 – 79 CE ), ancient Roman nobleman, scientist and historian, author of Naturalis Historia, " Pliny's Natural History "
Pliny's father died at an early age when his son was still young ; as a result, Pliny probably lived with his mother.
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.
Pliny's Natural History and the epigram writer Martial both credit Cnaeus Matius Calvinus, in the circle of Julius Caesar, with introducing the first topiary to Roman gardens, and Pliny the Younger describes in a letter the elaborate figures of animals, inscriptions, cyphers and obelisks in clipped greens at his Tuscan villa ( Epistle vi, to Apollinaris ).
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 ).
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.

Pliny's and Elder
Pliny's Natural History records the westward progress of the plane " introduced among us from a foreign clime for nothing but its shade ", planted first at the tomb of Diomedes on the island of Tremiti, then imported to Greek Sicily by Dionysius the Elder ( c. 432-367 BC ), tyrant of Syracuse.
* The Elder Pliny's Chapters on the History of Art, ( AD 77 ), trans.

Pliny's and him
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.
Next to Phidias, Myron and Kresilas, he is considered the most important sculptor of Classical antiquity: the 4th-century catalogue attributed to Xenocrates ( the " Xenocratic catalogue "), which was Pliny's guide in matters of art, ranked him between Phidias and Myron.
) 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 ).
Little is known about him apart from Pliny's Natural History.

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

uncle and Pliny
He revered his uncle, Pliny the Elder, and provides sketches of how his uncle worked on the Naturalis Historia.
It was at this time that Pliny became closer to his uncle Pliny the Elder.
In the same document the younger Pliny was adopted by his uncle.
His nephew, Pliny the Younger gave detailed descriptions of the eruption in which his uncle died, attributing his death to the effects of toxic gases.
Plinian eruptions, also known as ' Vesuvian eruptions ', are volcanic eruptions marked by their similarity to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 ( as described in a letter written by Pliny the Younger, and which killed his uncle Pliny the Elder ).

uncle and Elder
Lucan was the son of Marcus Annaeus Mela and grandson of Seneca the Elder ; he grew up under the tutelage of his uncle Seneca the Younger.
The first member of this branch was Welf IV ; he inherited the property of the Elder House of Welf when his maternal uncle Welf, Duke of Carinthia, died in 1055.
Significantly, his Libyan uncle Osorkon the Elder had already served on the throne for at least six years in the preceding 21st Dynasty ; hence, Shoshenq I's rise to power was not wholly unexpected.
Drusus was named after his paternal uncle the general Drusus the Elder, who was Tiberius ' younger brother.
John Brown's uncle was Obadiah Brown I ( 1712 – 1762 ) of Providence and son of Elder James Brown ( 1666 – 1716 ).
Philip and his brother Inge the Younger ruled together from 1105 or 1110 and onwards as successors of their uncle Inge the Elder.
According to unreliable traditions Inge would have ruled together with his brother Philip Halstensson after the death of their uncle Inge the Elder:
He came in control over all his family's Gorizian possessions upon the death of his uncle Meinhard the Elder, and of Tyrol as a fief from his father-in-law Count Albert IV of Tyrol.
Diebold, through his father and his uncle Diebold Schilling the Elder, came into contact with the art of chronicle book illustration as it had evolved in Alsace under the influence of Burgundy, in works like the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse ( BnF Fr 2643-6 ).
He was the maternal uncle to consul Publius Cornelius Scipio, Cornelia Scipio and Julia the Elder.
He is not to be confused with his uncle Francisco Espoz y Mina, generally known at the time as " Mina the Elder ", while Javier was " Mina the Younger ".

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