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 him among distinguished men who wrote short poems that were less than austere ( versiculi parum severi ).

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.

The earliest known reference to fermented alcoholic drinks being made from pears is found in Pliny, but perry making seems to have become well established in what is today France following the collapse of the Roman empire ; references to perry making in its later heartland of England do not appear before the Norman Conquest.

A summary of Classical sources on the Seres ( Greek and Roman name of China ) ( essentially Pliny and Ptolemy ) gives the following account:

The origins of the following superstitions are not so clear, but there is speculation in Plutarch, Festus, and Pliny the Elder.

A summary of Classical sources on the Seres ( essentially Pliny and Ptolemy ) gives the following account:

77 AD ), Pliny provides a foundation myth for the Celtic settlement of Cisalpine Gaul in which a Helvetian named Helico plays the role of culture hero.

The plant called saliunca ( the wild or Celtic nard, a relative of the lavender ) grew in abundance and was used as a perfume according to Pliny the Elder.

A tradition reported by Justin and Pliny the Elder affirmed that they were a portion of that people who had settled in the plains of the Po and were driven into the mountains by the invading Gauls, when they assumed the name of " Raetians " from an eponymous leader Raetus ; a more probable derivation, however, is from Celtic rait (" mountain land ").

Pliny considers the Celts from Iberia to have migrated from the territory of Lusitania's Celtici which he appears to regard as the original seat of the whole Celtic population of the Iberian peninsula including the Celtiberians, on the ground of an identity of sacred rites, language, and names of cities.

Despite repeated claims by Lega Nord and her local allies about a Celtic heritage, recent studies seem to show that the " bustocchi "' s ancestors were Ligurians, called ‘ wild ’ by Pliny, ‘ marauders and robbers ’ by Livy and ‘ unshaven and hairy ’ by Pompeius Tragus.

Pliny also rejected that the Grovii were Celtic, he considered them to have a Greek origin.

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

It was said by Pliny the Elder to have been founded by the Laevi and Marici, two Ligurian tribes, while Ptolemy attributes it to the Insubres.

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 the Elder ( Gaius Plinius Secundus, AD 23 – 79 ) provides a more detailed explanation, stating that the Persians gave the name Sakai to the Scythian tribes " nearest to them ".

It is said by Pliny the Elder to have been founded by the Laevi and Marici, two Ligurian tribes, while Ptolemy attributes it to the Insubres.

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 the Elder ( 23-79 AD ) registers them as one of the tribes of Moesia.

Ronald Syme supposed that Tacitus closely copied the lost Bella Germaniae of Pliny the Elder, since the Germania is in some places outdated: in its description of the Danubian tribes, says Syme, " they are loyal clients of the Empire.

According to Pliny, four tribes inhabited the region of Adiabene: Orontes, Alani, Azones and Silices.

* while Pliny relates the existence of such tribes on the islands in the Persian Gulf

In Pliny Roman Belgae extends along the Rhine from the Scheldt to the upper Seine ; that is, upstream to Switzerland, and includes many more tribes than are listed in Caesar, some of them still Germanic.

According to Pliny the Elder, Nuceria was inhabited by two tribes, one the Nucerini Favonienses ( faithful of Favonia, also named Fauna, a Goddess ) and the other Camellani ( originating from Camerinum, or possibly makers of camellae, small wooden containers ).

Some 20th-century scholars, including the American etymologist Kemp Malone ( 1889 – 1971 ), have argued that the reason for the differences between Pliny, Tacitus and Ptolemy when it comes to names and tribes is that their informants came from different regions, mainly familiar with the parts of Scandinavia closest to their own location: " The name Scadinavia ( with its variant forms ) reached the classical world through western sources, and [...] Tacitus, whose information about the North came from the east, knows nothing of the name, in contradistinction to Pliny, who got his information from the west.

Since the name Hilleviones only appear in Pliny, several attempts have been made to connect the name with different tribes mentioned in other classical texts and with different ethnic groups of the modern era.

The Ababda or Ababde – the Gebadei of Pliny, and possibly the Troglodytes of other classical writers – are nomads living in the area between the Nile and the Red Sea, in the vicinity of Aswan in Egypt.

One of the earliest encyclopedic works to have survived to modern times is the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder, a Roman statesman living in the 1st century AD.

According to historians, as a result of the linguistic unity of the Getae and Dacians that result from the record of ancient writers Strabo, Cassius Dio, Trogus Pompeius, Appian and Pliny the Elder, contemporary historiography often uses the term Geto-Dacians to refer to the people living in the area between the Carpathians, the Haemus ( Balkan ) Mountains and the Black Sea.

The living conditions were bad, as this quote from Roman Pliny shows:

Pliny portrays Zenodorus as a well-reputed ancient artist of bronze statues, and describes Lysistratos of Sikyon, who takes plaster casts from living faces to create wax casts using the indirect process.

Pliny the Elder cited Ctesias and quoted Photius identifying the Chimera with an area of permanent gas vents which still can be found today by hikers on the Lycian Way in southwest Turkey.

It was named for M. Pliny Brown, a large landowner in the area.

The men after whom Allegan's downtown streets were named-Elisha Ely, Samuel Hubbard, Charles Christopher Trowbridge, Pliny Cutler, and Edmund Monroe-patented land in the area in 1833.

He was the first Roman to cross the Atlas Mountains, and Pliny the Elder quotes his description of the area in his Natural History.

Some hint of the complicated cultural web that bound Armorica and the Britanniae ( the " Britains " of Pliny ) is given by Caesar when he describes Diviciacus of the Suessiones, as " the most powerful ruler in the whole of Gaul, who had control not only over a large area of this region but also of Britain " Archaeological sites along the south coast of England, notably at Hengistbury Head, show connections with Armorica as far east as the Solent.

Both the Romans Seneca the Younger and Pliny made reference to vines in the area between the rivers Douro and Minho.

In his Natural History Pliny the Elder describes a race of silvestres ( wild ) creatures in India who had humanoid bodies but a coat of fur, fangs, and no capacity to speak-a description that fits gibbons indigenous to the area.

Pliny the Elder described in some detail the area south of the Atlas Mountains, when the expedition of Gaius Suetonius Paulinus was done in 41 AD:

The Pontine Marshes, termed in Latin Pomptinus Ager by Titus Livius, Pomptina Palus ( singular ) and Pomptinae Paludes ( plural ) by Pliny the Elder, today the Agro Pontino in Italian, is an approximately quadrangular area of former marshland in the Lazio Region of Central Italy, extending along the coast southeast of Rome about from just east of Anzio to Terracina ( ancient Tarracina ), varying in distance inland between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Volscian Mountains ( the Monti Lepini in the north, the Monti Ausoni in the center and the Monti Aurunci in the south ) from to The northwestern border runs approximately from the mouth of the river Astura along the river and from its upper reaches to Cori in the Monti Lepini.

The original use of the name, by Tacitus, Ptolemy, Lucan and Pliny the Elder, referred to the area ( or parts of the area ) also known as Pictavia or Pictland north of Hadrian's Wall in today's Scotland.

The Deciates had a town in the area, oppidum Deciatum but this was not Antibes itself ( Pliny the Elder, Chorographia, 2. 69 ):