Pliny the Elder's Natural History ( 36. 90 ) lists the legendary Smilis, reputed to be a contemporary of Daedalus, together with the historical mid-sixth-century BC architects and sculptors Rhoikos and Theodoros as two of the makers of the Lemnian labyrinth, which Andrew Stewart regards as " evidently a misunderstanding of the Samian temple's location en limnais the marsh '.

Pliny lists the following Celtic tribes as living in the area: the Aedui and Carnuteni as having treaties with Rome ; the Meldi and Secusiani as having some measure of independence ; and the Boii, Senones, Aulerci ( both the Eburovices and Cenomani ), the Parisii, Tricasses, Andicavi, Viducasses, Bodiocasses, Veneti, Coriosvelites, Diablinti, Rhedones, Turones, and the Atseui.

Pliny also lists the persons who by their deeds won the grass crown:

For Umbria proper Pliny simply lists the settlements: Spello, Todi, Amelia, Attiglio, Assisi, Arna, Iesi, Camerino, Casuentillum, Carsulae, Dolates Sallentini, Foligno, Market of Flaminius, Market of Julius, Market Brenta, Fossombrone, Gubbio, Terni, etc.

Although Turkic languages may have been spoken as early as 600 BC, the first mention of the ethnonym " Turk " may date from Herodotus ' ( c. 484-425 BCE ) reference to " Targitas "; furthermore, during the first century CE, Pomponius Mela refers to the " Turcae " in the forecasts north of the Sea of Azov, and Pliny the Elder lists the " Tyrcae " among the people of the same area.

The governor of Bithynia – Pontus, Pliny, was sent long lists of denunciations by anonymous citizens, which Emperor Trajan advised him to ignore.

Strabo of Amaseia called him Kidenas, Pliny the Elder Cidenas, and Vettius Valens Kidynas.

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

Pliny the Elder refers to him as an authority 65 times in the Natural History and in Athens, a monument was built in recognition of his writings.

The Marmor Parium, only partially preserved in the relevant place, dates him to 541 / 40 BC, a date supported by Pliny The Elder in this comment on the theme of sculpture:

The painter and the humanist scholars who probably advised him would have recalled that Pliny the Elder had mentioned a lost masterpiece of the celebrated artist, Apelles, representing Venus Anadyomene ( Venus Rising from the Sea ).

His friends often called him " the Pliny of the 18th century ".

Pliny the Elder, to whom we owe much of our knowledge of this artist ( Naturalis Historia 35. 36. 79 – 97 and passim ), rated him superior to preceding and subsequent artists.

The younger Pliny relates in a letter to Trajan, that an anonymous bill of indictment was presented to him on which were many names of Christians ; we do not know if the author of this libellus was a Christian.

X. 1. 95 ), Varro was recognized as an important source by many other ancient authors, among them Cicero, Pliny the Elder, Virgil in the Georgics, Columella, Aulus Gellius, Macrobius, Augustine, and Vitruvius, who credits him ( VII. Intr. 14 ) with a book on architecture.

Henry Stubbe called him " the very Pliny of our age for lying ".

Of these writers, Arrian speaks most highly of Megasthenes, while Strabo and Pliny treat him with less respect.

Returning to attend the London International Congress of History, Iorga was also made a honoris causa doctor by the University of Oxford ( with a reception speech likening him to both Livy and Pliny the Elder ).

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 ).

It was the rumors of his plundering and atrocities committed on the local population, which included maiming and torture, that earned him the nickname Hybrida (" half-beast ") ( Pliny, Nat.

Pliny immediately sets out in a warship, and gets in sight of the villa, but the eruption prevents him from landing and taking off Rectina and her library — which is thus left for modern archaeologists to find.

Pliny depicts him spending time in learned conversation at his villas, writing, passionately collecting books and sculpture, and giving recitations of his works.

A Gaius Matius ( PW 2 ) is recorded as a friend and assistant of Caesar Augustus, an eques who wrote three volumes on gastronomy ( Columella credits him with " mincemeat à la Matius " ( minutal Matianum )), and was said by Pliny the Elder to have invented the clipping of shrubbery.

Boas's obituary for him ( one of a number he had to write for younger colleagues including Pliny Earle Goddard and Edward Sapir ) recalls him as a genuinely good person.

| Pliny the Elder reported the case of Cornelia Serpios, wife Serpios in Pompeii in the 1st century AD, who had given him a son, Volusius Saturninus, at the age of 60.

Of the hyena, Pliny writes that it " is popularly believed to be bisexual and to become male and female in alternate years, the female bearing offspring without any male ," and that " among the shepherds ’ s homesteads it simulates human speech, and picks up the name of one of them so as to call him to come out of doors and tear him to pieces, and also that it imitates a person being sick, to attract the dogs so that it may attack them ; that this animal alone digs up corpses ; that a female is seldom caught ; that its eyes have a thousand variations of color ; moreover that when its shadow falls on dogs they are struck dumb ; and that it has certain magic arts by which it causes every animal at which it gazes three times to stand rooted to the spot.

Pliny the Elder, in his " Natural History ," relates the story of a contest between Apelles and Protogenes: ' Apelles sailed Rhodes, eager to see the works of a man only known to him by reputation, and on his arrival immediately repaired to the studio.

For Pliny the Suebi were among the tribes of Herminones in central Germany.

Pliny may have mentioned them, although there is some debate as to the exact nature of the stone he referred to as Adamas ; In 2005, Australia, Botswana, Russia and Canada ranked among the primary sources of gemstone diamond production .< ref >

Its cultivation spread into the Mediterranean world by way of Iran from Syria: Pliny in his Natural History asserts that pistacia, " well known among us ," was one of the trees unique to Syria, and in another place, that the nut was introduced into Italy by the Roman consul in Syria, Lucius Vitellius the Elder ( consul in Syria in 35 AD ) and into Hispania at the same time by Flaccus Pompeius.

In Natural History, Pliny the Elder calls butter " the most delicate of food among barbarous nations ", and goes on to describe its medicinal properties.

Writing in AD 79, Pliny the Elder said that the Germanic tribes were members of separate groups of people, suggesting a distinction among them.

Pliny mentions the wines of Cesena as among the best.

Pliny also recorded an anecdote that was making the rounds among Hellenistic connoisseurs of the first century CE: Apelles travelled to Protogenes ' home in Rhodes to make the acquaintance of this painter he had heard so much about.

Its alleged practice helped justify the conquest of Gaul and both invasions of Britain as righteous acts of war in suppression of the Druids, the elite priestly class among the Gauls: according to Pliny the Elder, the British clung to the practice for as long as they could.

Of northern Europe his knowledge was imperfect, but he speaks of a great bay (" Codanus sinus ") to the north of Germany, among whose many islands was one, " Codanovia ," of pre-eminent size ; this name reappears in Pliny the Elder's work as Scatinavia.

The Roman geographer Pomponius Mela ( 2, i ) and the historian Pliny the Elder, writing in the first century AD, also list the Agathyrsi among the steppe tribes.

Pliny, in his work Natural History, applies a stricter usage of the term Illyrii, when speaking of Illyrii proprie dicti (" Illyrians properly so-called ") among the native communities in the south of Roman Dalmatia.

We still find its name both in Pliny ( among the populi stipendiarii ) and Ptolemy but no further notice of it is found in ancient authors.

) This is the popular version of a quotation from Pliny the Elder, " unde etiam vulgare Graeciae dictum semper aliquid novi Africam adferre " – " Whence the common saying among the Greeks, ' Africa always offers something new '.

While Pliny may have been the primary source, scholars have identified others ; among them are Caesar's Gallic Wars, Strabo, Diodorus Siculus, Posidonius, Aufidius Bassus, and numerous non-literary sources: presumably based on interviews with traders and soldiers who had ventured beyond the Rhine and Danube borders, and Germanic mercenaries in Rome.

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.

While other Roman writers of the time, such as Cicero, Suetonius, Lucan, Tacitus and Pliny the Elder, described human sacrifice among the Celts, only Caesar and the geographer Strabo mention the wicker man as one of many ways the Druids of Gaul performed sacrifices.

Pliny gives a list of his works ; among them a Rape of Persephone, Victory in a Quadriga, Apollo and Artemis, and Cybele seated on a Lion.

From this time little is known about Enna: Strabo speaks of it as still inhabited, though by a small population, in his time: and the name appears in Pliny among the municipal towns of Sicily, as well as in Ptolemy and the Itineraries.

Pliny ( 18. 22 ) remarks that the waters of a copious fountain at Tacape were divided among the cultivators according to a system where each had the use of the water during a certain interval of time.

Pliny, indeed, notices the Phintienses ( or Phthinthienses as the name is written in some manuscripts ) among the stipendiary towns of Sicily ; and its name is found also in Ptolemy ( who writes it ); but it is strange that both these writers reckon it among the inland towns of Sicily, though its maritime position is clearly attested both by Diodorus and Cicero.

Pliny, writing in Latin in the 1st century CE, describes a region of Syria that was " formerly called Palaestina " among the areas of the Eastern Mediterranean.

Pliny the Elder counts it as a city of the Pelendones, but other authors, like Strabo and Ptolemy place it among the Arevaci people.