Facio records that van Eyck was a learned man, and that he was versed in the classics, particularly Pliny the Elder's work on painting.

Letters survive in which Pliny records this latter marriage taking place, as well as his attachment to Calpurnia and his sadness when she miscarries their child.

Pliny the Elder records that it became so expensive that the price became fixed by decree-70 sesterces per libum — ten times more costly than red ochre.

Pliny records that Silius especially revered Virgil, celebrating Virgil's birthday more lavishly than his own and treating the poet's tomb as a shrine.

Old history records attribute Antonio de Noli the discovery of Cape Verde Islands, supposedly " the ancient Hesperides of Pliny and Ptolemy ".

The Roman historian Pliny records this method being used in Britain to extract lead.

The phrase " Hall of Records " originated with Edgar Cayce although the idea of the existence of lost Egyptian records is much older, and the belief in cavities around the sphinx dates back to Pliny the Elder.

Her story was recorded in the letters of Pliny the Younger, who obtained his information from Arria's granddaughter, Fannia.

According to Suetonius who had cited from Pliny the Elder, Agrippina had borne to Germanicus, a son called Gaius Julius Caesar who had a lovable character.

* Pliny the Younger ( died 113 ), ancient Roman statesman, orator, and writer ; nephew and adopted son of Pliny the Elder

* Pliny Earle ( physician ) ( 1809 – 1892 ), American physician, psychiatrist, and poet, son of Pliny Earle I

Pliny the Younger was born in Novum Comum ( Como, Northern Italy ), the son of Lucius Caecilius Cilo, born there, and wife Plinia Marcella, a sister of Pliny the Elder.

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

But although Pliny the Younger uses Secundus as part of his name, this doesn't mean he is the second son: adopted sons took over the name of their adoption father.

The it seems unknown to Pliny the Elder, so Valens ' mother was probably not his sister Plinia ; perhaps Valens was Lutulla's son from an earlier relationship.

Pliny says he was the grandson of Aristotle by his daughter Pythias, but this is not confirmed by any other ancient writer ; and according to the Suda, he was the son of Cretoxena, the sister of the physician Medius, and Cleombrotus.

The ancient name of the town of Servia is also mentioned by Roman writer Pliny the Elder as well as on an ancient Greek inscription found at the city of Veroia which reads: " Παρμενίων Γλαυκία Φυλακήσιος νικητής εν Δολίχω ", i. e. ' Parmenion son of Glauceas from Phylacae winner at Doliche '.

Olds was born in Geneva, Ohio, the youngest son of blacksmith and pattern-maker Pliny Fiske Olds and his wife Sarah Whipple Olds.

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.

| 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.

Antoninus ’ father and paternal grandfather died when he was young and he was raised by Gnaeus Arrius Antoninus, his maternal grandfather, reputed by contemporaries to be a man of integrity and culture and a friend of Pliny the Younger.

* Pliny the Younger probably died in this year

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 is thought to have died suddenly during his appointment in Bithynia-Pontus, around 112 AD, since no events referred to in his letters date later than that.

Cape Verde may be referred to in the works " De choreographia " by Pomponius Mela ( died 45 CE / AD ) and " Historia naturalis " by Pliny the Elder ( died 79 CE / AD ).

Pliny the Elder, who later died during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, dedicated his Naturalis Historia to Titus.

* Aphrodite Anadyomene (" Aphrodite Rising from the Sea "), showing the goddess rising from the sea ( not the painting he was working on when he died, but an earlier painting ), for which Pliny the Elder relates the tradition he used a former mistress of Alexander, Campaspe, as his model for Aphrodite.

Observations by Pliny the Elder noted the presence of earthquakes preceded an eruption ; he died in the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE while investigating it at Stabiae.

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.

The prototypical latifundia were the Roman estates in Magna Graecia ( the south of Italy ) and in Sicily, which distressed Pliny the Elder ( died AD 79 ) as he travelled, seeing only slaves working the land, not the sturdy Roman farmers who had been the backbone of the Republic's army.

Pliny the Elder notes he died in the reign of Augustus ( Natural History IX. 39, X. 23 ).

According to Pliny, when the child fell ill and died, the dolphin died of broken heart also.

Pliny the Younger provided an account of his death, and suggested that he collapsed and died through inhaling poisonous gases emitted from the volcano.

Neartius Marcellus was married twice ; firstly to Corellia Hispulla, the daughter of Pliny ’ s elderly friend who had been suffect consul in AD 78 and who had died around AD 103, Quintus Corellius Rufus, and later to Domitia Vettilla.

Pliny, who tells the anecdote, adds that he won his wager, for he reached a great age and died at last from an accident.

Pliny is presenting an archaic view, as in his time amber was a precious stone brought from the Baltic at great expense, but the Germans, he says, use it for firewood, according to Pytheas.

Composting as a recognized practice dates to at least the early Roman Empire since Pliny the Elder ( AD 23-79 ).

Also in Roman times, some Essenes settled on the Dead Sea's western shore ; Pliny the Elder identifies their location with the words, " on the west side of the Dead Sea, away from the coast ... the town of Engeda " ( Natural History, Bk 5. 73 ); and it is therefore a hugely popular but contested hypothesis today, that same Essenes are identical with the settlers at Qumran and that " the Dead Sea Scrolls " discovered during the 20th century in the nearby caves had been their own library.

Although his work has been criticized for the lack of candor in checking the " facts ", some of his text has been confirmed by recent research, like the spectacular remains of Roman gold mines in Spain, especially at Las Medulas, which Pliny probably saw in operation while a Procurator there a few years before he compiled the encyclopedia.

Some modern scholars and archaeologists have argued that Essenes inhabited the settlement at Qumran, a plateau in the Judean Desert along the Dead Sea, citing Pliny the Elder in support, and giving credence that the Dead Sea Scrolls are the product of the Essenes.

In another example, believing the black rock of the Schlossberg at Stolpen to be the same as Pliny the Elder's basalt, Agricola applied this name to it, and thus originated a petrological term which has been permanently incorporated in the vocabulary of science.

Libraries were amenities suited to a villa, such as Cicero's at Tusculum, Maecenas's several villas, or Pliny the Younger's, all described in surviving letters.

Pliny the Elder, an imperial Roman polymath, states that the games at Lykaion were the first to introduce gymnastic competition.

Pliny adds that it has no nights at midsummer when the sun is passing through the sign of the crab ( summer solstice ), a reaffirmation that it is on the Arctic Circle.

Pliny is presenting an archaic view, as in his time amber was a precious stone brought from the Baltic at great expense, but the Germans, he says, use it for firewood, according to Pytheas.

Expressing surprise at the ignorance of the poets, Pliny says " There can be no doubt that amber is the product of the islands of the northern ocean ( Baltic Sea )" and attributes its introduction into the Po valley to the Veneti, the last link in a trade route to the north through Pannonia and Germany.

The Roman fleet based at Misenum, commanded by Pliny the Elder, evacuates refugees but he dies after inhaling volcanic fumes.

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.

Agricola applied " basalt " to the volcanic black rock of the Schlossberg ( local castle hill ) at Stolpen, believing it to be the same as Pliny the Elder's " very hard stone ".

Pliny the Elder considered the turnip one of the most important vegetables of his day, rating it " directly after cereals or at all events after the bean, since its utility surpasses that of any other plant.

Crassus's wealth is estimated by Pliny at approximately 200 million sestertii.

After being first tutored at home, Pliny went to Rome for further education.

It was at this time that Pliny became closer to his uncle Pliny the Elder.

Pliny the Younger married three times, firstly when he was very young, about eighteen, to a stepdaughter of Veccius Proculus, of whom he became a widower at age 37, secondly to the daughter of Pompeia Celerina, at an unknown date and thirdly to Calpurnia, daughter of Calpurnius and granddaughter of Calpurnus Fabatus of Comum.

The very first written definition / discussion of volcanisim ( Effusive eruption ) observed at Katakekaumenē ( modern Kula, Western Turkey ) until Pliny the Younger witnessed to the eruption of Vesuvius on 24 August 79 ADPompeii

According to the historian Pliny the Elder, the craftsmen decided to stay and finish the work after the death of their patron " considering that it was at once a memorial of his own fame and of the sculptor's art.

There is some discrepancy as to the people to which it belonged at contact: Pliny expressly assigns it to the Hirpini ; but Livy certainly seems to consider it as belonging to the Samnites proper, as distinguished from the Hirpini ; and Ptolemy adopts the same view.