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Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 – AD 79), called Pliny the Elder (/ˈplɪni/), was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commanderPliny the Younger (2,853 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
113), better known as Pliny the Younger (/ˈplɪni/), was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raiseNatural History (Pliny) (7,224 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
The Natural History (Latin: Naturalis Historia) is a Latin work by Pliny the Elder. The largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire toPhoenix (mythology) (3,101 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
motif spread and gained a variety of new associations; Herodotus, Lucan, Pliny the Elder, Pope Clement I, Lactantius, Ovid, and Isidore of Seville areMount Vesuvius (7,628 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
only surviving eyewitness account of the event consists of two letters by Pliny the Younger to the historian Tacitus. Vesuvius has erupted many times sinceEruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD (5,325 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Pliny's ship to the location had prevented anyone from leaving. Pliny and his party saw flames coming from several parts of the mountain, which PlinyJames Whitney (politician) (544 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Sir James Pliny Whitney KCMG KC (October 2, 1843 – September 25, 1914) was a Canadian politician and lawyer in the province of Ontario. He served as ConservativeEpistulae (Pliny) (1,763 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Epistulae ([ɛˈpɪs.t̪ʊ.ɫ̪ae̯], "letters") are a series of personal missives by Pliny the Younger directed to his friends and associates. These Latin lettersTacitus (5,261 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
with Pliny suggests origins in northern Italy. No evidence exists, however, that Pliny's friends from northern Italy knew Tacitus, nor do Pliny's lettersHilleviones (1,873 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
according to the Roman geographer Pliny the Elder in Naturalis Historia (Book 4, Chapter 13 resp. 27), written circa 77 AD. Pliny's Scatinavia is generally believedTrajan (18,731 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
argued that Pliny's correspondence with Trajan is neither intimate nor candid, but rather an exchange of official mail in which Pliny's stance bordersDoric Hexapolis (575 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Apollo. The hexapolis thus became the Doric Pentapolis. (Herod. i. 144.) Pliny (v. 28) says, Caria mediae Doridi circumfunditur ad mare utroque latereTelandrus (198 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
appears in tribute records of Athens between the years 453/2 and 433/2 BCE. Pliny the Elder mentions Telandria (modern Tersane) as an island from which theCultural depictions of salamanders (2,735 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
salamander. In one of the earliest surviving descriptions of a salamander, Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE) noted that the creature is "an animal like a lizardPlinian eruption (1,643 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The eruption was described in a letter written by Pliny the Younger, after the death of his uncle Pliny the Elder. Plinian/Vesuvian eruptions are markedBasilisk (3,111 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
to those who look into its eyes. According to the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder, the basilisk of Cyrene is a small snake, "being not more thanLaocoön and His Sons (6,075 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
statue is very likely the same one that was praised in the highest terms by Pliny the Elder, the main Roman writer on art, who attributed to Greek sculptorsDaedala (city) (475 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
river; and these may be the islands which Pliny means. The islands of the Cryeis, three according to Pliny, lie opposite to Crya, on the west side ofAttea (254 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
that it is the same place which is named Attalia in the Peutinger Table. Pliny the Elder mentions an Attalia in Mysia, but he places it in the interior;Marsacii (857 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The only relatively clear source concerning the location of this tribe is Pliny the Elder's Natural History. They are in a list of tribes living in theCrya (302 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
"...and there are also other islands of the Cryeis, Carysis and Alina". Pliny who may have had the same or similar reference, calls it Cryeon tres, byArtaiouteichos (225 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
could be the same city that Pliny the Elder mentions by the name of Ariace but most scholars consider that the Ariace of Pliny should be identified withPteleum (Ionia) (266 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Erythrae, in Ionia. Pliny the Elder mentions Pteleon, Helos, and Dorium as near Erythrae, but those places are confused by Pliny with the Triphylian townsSuetonius (1,418 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
senator and letter-writer Pliny the Younger. Pliny describes him as "quiet and studious, a man dedicated to writing". Pliny helped him buy a small propertyBubon (Lycia) (652 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
entrance to the pass over the mountains. Bubon is mentioned by Pliny, Ptolemy, and Hierocles. Pliny mentions a kind of chalk (creta) that was found about BubonClitumnus (135 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Clitunno River in Umbria. Reference to Clitumnus is best attested in Pliny the Younger "Letters" 8.8: "Hard by is an ancient and sacred temple, whereAlum (3,776 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
a substance termed alumen occurs in the Roman Pliny the Elder's Natural History. By comparing Pliny's description with the account of stypteria (στυπτηρία)Mohs scale (1,174 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
mentioned by Theophrastus in his treatise On Stones, c. 300 BC, followed by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia, c. AD 77. The Mohs scale is usefulSosigenes (astronomer) (515 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Σωσιγένης) (fl. 1st century BC) was an Ancient Greek astronomer. According to Pliny the Elder's Natural History 18.210–212, Julius Caesar consulted him whileBisanthe (361 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Resistos or Resisto, mentioned by Pliny the Elder, and in the Antonine Itinerary, is the same as Bisanthe; but Pliny mentions Bisanthe and Resistos asCucumber (3,252 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
available via Perseus Project. Pliny the Elder, Natural History XX.iii Archived 5 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine. Pliny the Elder, Natural History XXAtarneus (665 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
what he means. They left the place, however, if his statement is true; and Pliny the Elder, in his time, mentions Atarneus as no longer a city. PausaniasManticore (4,773 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
by Philostratus (c. 170–247). Pliny did not share Pausanias' skepticism. And for 1500 years afterwards, it was Pliny's account, also copied by SolinusPliny Township, Aitkin County, Minnesota (491 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Pliny Township is a township in Aitkin County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 109 as of the 2010 census. Pliny Township was named for PlinyAncient Rome and wine (9,402 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Roman writers – most notably Cato, Columella, Horace, Catullus, Palladius, Pliny, Varro and Virgil – have provided insight into the role played by wine inMagic in the Greco-Roman world (7,438 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Papyri, curse tablets, amulets, and literary texts such as Ovid's Fasti and Pliny the Elder's Natural History. Pervasive throughout the Eastern MediterraneanClaudiopolis (Cilicia) (420 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
the place to which the pass over the northern Taurus leads from Laranda. Pliny mentions a Claudiopolis of Cappadocia, and Ptolemy has a Claudiopolis inSilius Italicus (2,485 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The sources for the life of Silius Italicus are primarily Letter 3.7 of Pliny the Younger, which is a description of the poet's life written on the occasionApelles (2,313 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Ἀπελλῆς; fl. 4th century BC) was a renowned painter of ancient Greece. Pliny the Elder, to whom much of modern scholars' knowledge of this artist isList of Graeco-Roman geographers (290 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(fl. 40s AD) Isidore of Charax (1st century AD) Mucianus (1st century AD) Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD), Natural History Marinus of Tyre (c. 70–130) PtolemyNetherlands in the Roman era (2,772 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the "Gaulish" islands in the delta during Roman times are mentioned by Pliny the Elder: The Cananefates, whom Tacitus says were similar to the BataviansMount Waumbek (310 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
mountain located in Coos County, New Hampshire. The mountain is part of the Pliny Range of the White Mountains. Waumbek is flanked to the northeast by MountSide (Caria) (138 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
also known as Sibde (Σίβδη), was a town of ancient Caria. According to Pliny the Elder, Alexander the Great united in Halicarnassus six cities by synoecismVergunni (296 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Verdon river, during the Iron Age. They are mentioned as Vergunni by Pliny (1st c. AD) and on an inscription. The meaning of the name remains obscurePliny Merrick (789 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Pliny T. Merrick (August 2, 1794 – January 31, 1867) was an American attorney and politician from Massachusetts. He served as an associate justice ofUcennii (336 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
during the Iron Age. They are mentioned as Ucenni (var. uceni, ucermi) by Pliny (1st c. AD) and on the Tropaeum Alpium, as Ucennos (var. cennos, sennosGriffin (11,145 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
hounds of Zeus" has led to the speculation they were seen as wingless. Pliny the Elder (1st century) was the first to explicitly state that griffinsDardanus (city) (1,595 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
plural of adjective Dardanios), a term used also for the district around it. Pliny the Elder called it Dardanium (Latin neuter singular). It appears in otherKhasas (2,485 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Khasa tribe living in the Northwest Himalayas and the Roman geographer Pliny The Elder specifically described them as "Indian people". They were reportedSogionti (281 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
during the Iron Age. They are mentioned as Sogionti (var. songi-, sonti-) by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Sogionti and Sogion[ti]or(um) on inscriptions. The meaningClariae (161 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Mountains and the Danube river. They are known from only one passage from Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia, where he mentions them alongside the AediNemaloni (129 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of Durance river during the Iron Age. They are mentioned as Nemaloni by Pliny (1st c. AD) and on an inscription. The Nemaloni lived in the middle valleyAedi (161 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Mountains and the Danube river. They are known from only one passage from Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia, where he mentions them alongside the ClariaeTirida (356 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Diomedis (both Latin for 'Diomedes's stable'), was a town of ancient Thrace. Pliny the Elder writes "Oppidum fuit Tirida, Diomedis equorum stabulis dirum."Coryphas (205 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
oysters of Coryphas are mentioned by Pliny the Elder. Its site is located near Keremköy, Asiatic Turkey. Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 5.30. RichardFannia (491 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
and daughter of Arria the Younger. Fannia is recorded in the writings of Pliny the Younger as a woman of fortitude and respectability. As with her grandmotherHydas (94 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
inland town of ancient Caria, mentioned by Pliny the Elder. Its site is located near Selimiye, Asiatic Turkey. Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 5.29. RichardVenetia et Histria (747 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Roman belief in a shared descent with the Veneti from the Trojans. Pliny the Elder was the only Roman writer to discuss the Augustan subdivisionPliny the Younger on Christians (3,091 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Pliny the Younger, the Roman governor of Bithynia and Pontus (now in modern Turkey), wrote a letter to Emperor Trajan around AD 110 and asked for counselEssenes (6,008 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Conversely, Roman writer Pliny the Elder positioned them somewhere above Ein Gedi, on the west side of the Dead Sea. Pliny relates in a few lines thatDruid (8,213 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
They were described by other Roman writers such as Cicero, Tacitus, and Pliny the Elder. Following the Roman invasion of Gaul, the druid orders were suppressedCaturiges (948 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Roman period. They are mentioned as Caturiges by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC) and Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Katourgídōn (Κατουργίδων) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD). TheGutones (1,700 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
are only a small number of mentions of the Gutones in classical sources. Pliny the Elder wrote that in the 4th century BC, the traveler Pytheas reportedVertamocorii (99 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
around Novara, in Eastern Piedmont (Italy). The Vertamocorii are reported by Pliny in the third book of Naturalis Historia, where they are said to be the foundersScaugdae (158 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Mountains and the Danube river. They are known from only one passage from Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia, where he mentions them alongside the AediCremaste (181 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
which town is nearby. Gold mines belonging to Lampsacus are mentioned by Pliny the Elder and by Polyaenus; and they may be the same as those of CremasteChryse (Troad) (123 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
ancient Troad, mentioned by Pliny as being on the coast north of Cape Lectum. The site of Chryse is located near modern Göztepe. Pliny. Naturalis Historia. VolAxis (genus) (175 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
four species are called hog deer. The genus name is a word mentioned in Pliny the Elder's Natural History. Following the third edition of Mammal SpeciesTriulatti (190 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the French Alps during the Iron Age. They are mentioned as Triullati by Pliny (1st c. AD). The ethnic name Triulatti is a latinized form of Gaulish *Triulat(t)oiCanae (572 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
in 406 B.C. Canae is mentioned by the ancient writers Herodotus, Strabo, Pliny, Livy, Ptolemy, Sappho, Thucydides, and Mela. According to the first-centuryNemeturii (300 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Columella (1st c. AD), and as Nemoturica and Nematuri (var. nemet-) by Pliny (1st c. AD). The ethnic name Nemeturii is a latinized form of Gaulish *NemeturioiCitron (4,008 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Bostock; H. T. Riley, eds. (1855). The Natural History. Pliny the Elder. London: Taylor and Francis. "Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, Book XII. The NaturalOliver Cowdery (4,707 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
name "Oliver H P Cowdery", the "H P" possibly standing for "Hervy" and "Pliny," two of his father's relatives. For unknown reasons, Cowdery discontinuedLysimachia (Mysia) (131 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
by Pliny the Elder, in whose time it no longer existed. Its site is tentatively located near the modern Hatıplar in İzmir Province, Turkey. Pliny. NaturalisCius (948 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Xenophon's time, extended at least as far east as the head of the gulf of Cius. Pliny the Elder reports that Cius was a Milesian colony. It was at the foot ofMenapii (1,842 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Μενάσπιοι) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD) and Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), as Menapi by Pliny (1st c. AD) and the Notitia Dignitatum (5th c. AD), and under the accusativeVesubiani (392 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Vésubie river during the Iron Age. They are mentioned as Vesubiani by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Vesubianorum and (V)esubiani on inscriptions. Guy BarruolHelveconae (158 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
They are possibly connected to the Hilleviones of Naturalis Historia by Pliny the Elder. The Helveconae as such (manuscript variant Helvaeonae) are oneGallitae (277 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
during the Iron Age. They are mentioned as Gallitae (var. -tre) by Pliny (1st c. AD) and on an inscription. The name Gallitae appears to be basedCressa (Thrace) (181 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Aegospotami, Cressa, Crithote and Pactya. It may be the same town cited by Pliny the Elder as Crissa on the Propontis. Its site is located 1.5 miles (2.4 km)Diocaesarea (Cappadocia) (152 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Pliny the Elder. Its site is located near Til (formerly Kaysar, reflecting the old name) in Asiatic Turkey. Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 5.6. Pliny.Libicii (Narbonensis) (339 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Polybius (2nd c. BC), Libui by Livy (late 1st c. BC), Libii and Libiciorum by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Libikō̃n (Λιβικῶν) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD). AccordingPlacia (218 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of Pseudo-Scylax, and by Pomponius Mela, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Pliny the Elder. Its site is tentatively located near Kurşunlu, in Bursa ProvinceTaurisci (449 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Slovenia (Carniola) before the coming of the Romans (c. 200 BC). According to Pliny the Elder, they are the same as the people known as the Norici. The etymologyMount Starr King (New Hampshire) (174 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
mountain is named after Thomas Starr King (1824–1864), and is part of the Pliny Range of the White Mountains. Mt. Starr King is flanked to the east by MountCenomani (Cisalpine Gaul) (690 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Etruscans southwards, and occupied their territory. The statement of Cato (in Pliny, Nat. Hist. III.130), that some of them settled near Massilia in the territoryAmbisontes (310 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Salzach valley during the Roman period. They are mentioned as Ambisontes by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Ambēsóntioi (Ἀμβησόντιοι) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD). TheKinaros (360 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
highest point is 296m. It was noted by several ancient authors including Pliny the Elder, Pomponius Mela, and Athenaeus. In 2011, the population of theArgiza (182 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Peutingeriana it is spelled Argesis and placed between Pergamum and Cyzicus. Pliny the Elder notes the town as Erizii and in his day it belonged to the conventusCatenates (298 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
rivers during the Iron Age. They are mentioned as Catenates (var. catte-) by Pliny (1st c. AD). The ethnic name probably contains the Gaulish stem catu-, meaningEguiturii (259 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Alpes Maritimae during the Iron Age. They are mentioned as Eguituri by Pliny (1st c. AD). The meaning of the ethnonym Eguituri(i) remains unclear. ThePapyrus Oxyrhynchus 53 (195 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
guild of carpenters. The measurements of the fragment are 248 by 155 mm. Pliny described the Egyptian persea tree in his Naturalis Historia XIII, 9,15Vennones (390 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(Οὐέννωνες) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), as Vennonenses (var. -onetes) by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Ouénnōnetes (Οὐέννωνετες) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD). TheCalucones (312 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
period. They are mentioned as Calucones (var. Callucones, Allucones) by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as kaloúkōnes (καλούκωνες; var. καλούκονες, κουλούκωνες)Grabaei (477 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
minor Illyrian tribe who lived near Lake Skadar. They were mentioned by Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD). After Philip II of Macedon defeated Bardylis (358Avatici (674 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), and an oppidum Maritima Avaticorum is documented by Pliny (1st c. AD) and Pomponius Mela (mid-1st c. AD). The Avatici dwelled nearZoroaster (8,410 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Zoroaster,[clarification needed] Pliny states that Zoroaster laughed on the day of his birth, although in an earlier place, Pliny had sworn in the name of HerculesTitus Vestricius Spurinna (726 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
after 105 AD) was a Roman senator, consul, and a friend and role model of Pliny the Younger. He was consul at least twice, the first time possibly in 72South Weeks (187 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
White Mountain National Forest was established. South Weeks is part of the Pliny Range of the White Mountains. South Weeks is flanked to the northeast byNeapolis (Pisidia) (178 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Νεάπολις) was a town in ancient Pisidia, a few miles south of Antioch. Pliny mentions it as a town of the Roman province of Galatia, which embraced aAnatilii (291 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
are mentioned as Anatiliorum by Pliny (1st c. AD). Their name may be related to Gaulish anatia, meaning 'souls'. Pliny mentions a regio Anatiliorum situatedSeduni (630 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Sedunis by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC), and as Seduni by Livy (late 1st c. BC) and Pliny (1st c. AD). The meaning of the ethnonym Seduni remains unclear. AccordingNicomedia (2,017 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
It is referenced repeatedly in Pliny the Younger's Epistles to Trajan during his tenure as governor of Bithynia. Pliny, in his letters, mentions severalRoman villa (1,810 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Two kinds of villas were generally described: the villa urbana (e.g. Pliny's villa at Laurentum), or villa suburbana (according to Columella), an estateCoele-Syria (6,265 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
to indicate "all Syria" or "all Syria except Phoenicia", by the writers; Pliny, Arrian, Ptolemy and also Diodorus Siculus, who indicated Coele-Syria toGallia Celtica (288 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
called Celts, in ours Galli, the third. A similar definition is given by Pliny the Elder: The whole of Gaul that is comprehended under the one generalSmilax (mythology) (335 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
according to Robert Beekes. Details of her story are vague and sparse. Pliny writes that Smilax was turned into bindweed shrub for loving the young CrocusHermocapelia (257 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
little plain almost completely surrounded by mountains." It was mentioned by Pliny the Elder and Hierocles but is best known for its coins which it mintedVelaunii (365 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the western Alps during the Iron Age. They are mentioned as Velauni by Pliny (1st c. AD), and probably as Οὐελαυνίους on an inscription. The ethnonymDando the Illyrian (110 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Dando (or Dandon) was an Illyrian who, according to Pliny the Elder, supposedly lived for 500 years or more. Pulleyn, William (1840). The EtymologicalAcitavones (290 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
during the Iron Age. They are mentioned as Acitavones (var. agitabo-) by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Acitavones on the Tropaeum Alpium. The etymology ofPactya (348 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
time deprived him of the command. It was a member of the Delian League.Pliny the Elder points out that both Cardia and Pactya later joined to form LysimachiaBrigianii (294 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
during the Iron Age and the Roman period. They are mentioned as Brigianii by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Brigiani, Brigantionis and Bricianiorum on inscriptionsTable of contents (626 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
section titles or brief descriptions with their commencing page numbers. Pliny the Elder credits Quintus Valerius Soranus (d. 82 BC) as the first authorScandinavia (8,698 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Norse as Skáney. The earliest identified source for the name Scandinavia is Pliny the Elder's Natural History, dated to the 1st century AD. Various referencesRhaetian people (2,631 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
people, whose own name for themselves was Hellenes). The Roman geographer Pliny the Elder, writing in AD 70, suggests that the people were named after "Raetus"Rucinates (405 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(Ῥουκάντιοι) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), as Rucinates (var. irucina-) by Pliny (1st c. AD), as R̔ounikátai (Ῥουνικάται) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), and asAnemoi (2,034 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the southeast wind. Eurus' Roman counterpart is Vulturnus, according to Pliny the Elder; but for Aulus Gellius Volturnus was the equivalent of the southeastCocylium (185 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Aeolia with an army to try to liberate the Greek colonies from Persian rule. Pliny the Elder notes Cocylium among the cities that, in his time, had disappearedMandane (Cilicia) (210 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
conjectured it to be the same place as the Myanda or Mysanda mentioned by Pliny the Elder; and if so, it must also be identical with the town of Myus (Μυούς)Thynias (260 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
speaks of the district as belonging to the people of Apollonia. According to Pliny the Elder, the town was placed a little to the south of the promontory.Etymologiae (4,328 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
three of its books are derived largely from Pliny the Elder's Natural History. Isidore acknowledges Pliny, but not his other principal sources, namelyEpidaurum (385 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
by M. Octavius but saved by the arrival of the consul Publius Vatinius. Pliny the Elder mentions Epidaurum in section 3.26.1 of Natural History whileNymphaeum (Illyria) (268 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
colonies on the Albanian coast. The harbor of Nymphaeum was mentioned by Pliny the Elder (23 CE – 79), Lucanus (39 AD – 65 AD), Livy (59 BC – AD 17) andScylace (188 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax mentions only Placia, but Pomponius Mela and Pliny the Elder speak of both as still existing. Its site is tentatively locatedTeutons (1,816 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Velleius Paterculus (died circa AD 31) classify Teutons as Germanic peoples. Pliny also classified them this way and specified that they were among the IngaevonesLillium (175 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
possible that the place may have derived its name from the Lilaeus, which Pliny the Elder mentions among the rivers of Bithynia. Its site is located eastAdanates (386 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Cottiae, during the Iron Age. They are mentioned as Edenates (var. edemn-) by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Adanatium on the Arc of Susa. The etymology of the nameAppia (Phrygia) (161 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
inhabited during Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine times. According to Pliny the Elder, it belonged to the conventus of Synnada. It became the seat ofCarambis (196 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax (under the name Caramus or Karamos) and by Pliny the Elder. The name occurs as Carambas in the Peutinger Table. The promontoryZoroaster (8,410 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Zoroaster,[clarification needed] Pliny states that Zoroaster laughed on the day of his birth, although in an earlier place, Pliny had sworn in the name of HerculesComo (5,797 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Caecilius mentioned by Catullus in the first century BCE, writers Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger, Pope Innocent XI, scientist Alessandro Volta, andTyrodiza (246 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Tiristasis (Τειρίστασις and Τιρίστασις) in the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax and Pliny the Elder. It was a member of the Delian League and appears in the tributeCarussa (213 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
also mentioned in the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax as a Greek city; and by Pliny the Elder. It was a member of the Delian League as it appears in tributeLas Médulas (1,350 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
montium (wrecking of the mountains), a Roman mining technique described by Pliny the Elder in 77 AD. The technique employed was a type of hydraulic miningAdunicates (241 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Adunicates. — Pliny 1938, Naturalis Historia, 3.35. Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 3:35. Evans 1967, p. 136. Barruol 1969, p. 390. Rivet 1988, p. 34. Pliny (1938)Myrrh (1,905 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
latter's white markings. Liquid myrrh, or stacte, which was written about by Pliny, was formerly a greatly valued ingredient of Jewish holy incense, but isMount Weeks (223 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
in Coos County, New Hampshire. Mt. Weeks is the northeasternmost of the Pliny Range of the White Mountains and the highest point within the city limitsA grain of salt (337 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
salt") is not what Pliny wrote. It is constructed according to the grammar of modern European languages rather than Classical Latin. Pliny's actual words wereBrixentes (407 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Roman era. They are mentioned as Brixentes (var. -xenetis, -xenetes) by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Brixántai (Βριξάνται) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD). An identificationConium (Phrygia) (219 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Eucarpia and Nacolea, 32 Roman Miles from Eucarpia and 40 from Nacolea. Pliny the Elder calls the town Conium; Ptolemy calls it Conna or Konna. UnderTyragetae (146 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Tagri, and, according to Ptolemy, the northern neighbours of Lower Moesia. Pliny (v. 12. s. 26) calls them, with more correct orthography, Tyragetae, andCrithote (Thrace) (314 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
The geographer places it between the cities of Callipolis and Pactya. Pliny the Elder, for his part, says it was adjacent to the Propontis, where wereThebasa (239 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
fortified place in Asia Minor in Classical Antiquity that was noted by Pliny as a city of ancient Lycaonia, situated in Tauros. Later, Thebasa survivedTemple of Artemis (4,657 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the goddess's cult image. Thirty-six of these columns were, according to Pliny the Elder, decorated by carvings in relief. A new ebony or blackened grapewoodCeto (1,264 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
daughter of Phorcys, but does not indicate whether Ceto is her mother. Pliny the Elder mentions worship of "storied Ceto" at Joppa (now Jaffa), in aLicates (483 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Likátioi (Λικάτιοι; var. -ττ-) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), as Licates by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Likátoi (Λικάτοι) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD). The ethnicChauci (2,755 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
powerful local families and a dominant military leader. Writing in AD 79, Pliny the Elder said that the Germanic tribes were members of separate groupsPillars of Hercules (1,524 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
in Ceuta and Jebel Musa in Morocco. The term was applied in antiquity: Pliny the Elder included the Pillars of Hercules in his Naturalis historia (BookCaryanda (376 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
who derived his information from Strabo, agree with the texts of Strabo. Pliny simply mentions the island Caryanda with a town; but he is in that passageBagienni (141 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Vagienni) were an ancient Ligurian people of north-western Italy mentioned in Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia. They were based in various areas of whatCeto (1,264 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
daughter of Phorcys, but does not indicate whether Ceto is her mother. Pliny the Elder mentions worship of "storied Ceto" at Joppa (now Jaffa), in aCosmetics in ancient Rome (2,429 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
32.21-2, 10.90. Pliny the Elder. Natural History, 26.103. Horace, Epodes, 12.10-11. Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 11.154. Pliny the Elder, NaturalAlbucius (150 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
mentioned by Pliny as having gained by his practice the annual income of two hundred and fifty thousand sesterces. This is considered by Pliny to be a veryPliny, West Virginia (131 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Pliny is an unincorporated community in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States. It was named for M. Pliny Brown, an early settler. The ZIP code isLaurus nobilis (2,564 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
nettle is a poultice soaked in boiled bay leaves. The Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder listed a variety of conditions which laurel oil was supposed toAlexandria Prophthasia (379 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
another of Alexander's fortresses, and Kandahar. It is mentioned by Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Ammianus Marcellinus, Isidore of Charax, Stephanus of ByzantiumPhiloxenus of Eretria (254 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
surpassed, having discovered new and rapid methods of coloring. According to Pliny, a picture of his was inferior to none, in particular his depiction of aIstvaeones (1,630 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the spelling "Istæuones" in his Germania, and Pliny the Elder, who used the spelling "Istuaeones". Pliny further specified its meaning by claiming thatCelegeri (166 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
inhabited Moesia Superior (modern Central Serbia), and are registered by Pliny as living between the Dardanoi and the Triballi. They appear in north-westernmostCalpe (Bithynia) (321 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
place is minutely described by Xenophon. The place is mentioned also by Pliny the Elder, Solinus, Arrian, who places it 210 stadia from the mouth of theGenauni (326 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
4:3:3. Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 3:20. de Bernardo Stempel 2015, p. 88. Anreiter 1997, pp. 8–9, 173. Dietz 2006. Talbert 2000, Map 19: Raetia. Pliny (1938)Hyrcanis (Lydia) (285 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Macedonians, who also settled in this district, whence they are called by Pliny the Elder and Tacitus "Macedones Hyrcani." The city minted its own coinsSidussa (284 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
territory of Erythrae, noted by Thucydides as a strong place, like Pteleum. Pliny the Elder describes it as an island off the coast of Erythrae. It is probableSalassi (754 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(early 1st c. AD), as Salassi by Livy (late 1st c. BC), as Salassos by Pliny (1st c. AD), as Salasíon (Σαλασίον) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), as SalassoíMaionia in Lydia (238 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
fortress) a village known for its carpet manufacture. The town is mentioned by Pliny the Elder, Hierocles, and in the Notitiae Episcopatuum. Several coins fromMedulli (598 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
BC), Méd(o)ulloi (Μέδ<ο>υλλοι) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), Medulli by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Medoúllous (Μεδούλλους) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD). TheMethe (416 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The Latin Ebrietas – female personification of drunkenness mentioned by Pliny – may be seen as an equivalent to Methe. The Anacreontea, fr. 38 (transTemple of Clitumnus (1,414 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
suggests it may have been the Temple to Jupiter Clitumnus mentioned by Pliny, archaeologists found that the structure was built later, before the 6thDomus Aurea (3,228 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
colossal 35.5 m (120 RF) high bronze statue of him, the Colossus Neronis. Pliny the Elder, however, puts its height at only 30.3 m (106.5 RF). The statueColossus of Rhodes (3,669 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
modern principles of earthquake engineering), and the accounts of Philo and Pliny, who saw and described the ruins. The base pedestal was said to be at leastZygii (349 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
south lay the part of Colchis inhabited by the Svans (Soanes of Strabo and Pliny the Elder). Initially, Zyx (Italian: Sychia, Georgian: ჯიქეთი, Jiqeti) inComani (tribe) (320 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
(modern Marseille) during the Iron Age. They are mentioned as Comani by Pliny (1st c. AD) and by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD). The ethnonym Comani may be comparedLeontion (197 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
by Pliny, in the preface of his Naturalis historia. Diogenes Laertius, x. 23 Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, xiii. 588, 593 Diogenes Laertius, x. 5 Pliny, NatStyx (4,572 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
is washed by the falling water". Grimal, s.v. Styx. Pliny, Natural History 2.231, 31.26–27. Pliny, Natural History 30.149. Compare with Arrian, AnabasisQuariates (309 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
during the Iron Age. They are mentioned as Quariates (var. quadr-) by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Quadiatium and Quariat(ium?) on inscriptions. The etymologyHeliotrope (mineral) (617 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
the mineral reflects light. Such notions are described, for example, by Pliny the Elder (Nat. Hist. 37.165). Heliotrope was called "stone of Babylon"Nantuates (630 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
antuatis), Nantuatibus and Nantuatium by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC), Nantuates by Pliny (1st c. AD), Nantoua͂tai (Ναντουᾶται) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), and asSextius Niger (775 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
who continued his philosophical teachings. From Pedanius Dioscorides and Pliny the Elder, who mention his work, we can fix his time of writing to a periodEcdinii (444 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(Alpes-Maritimes) during the Iron Age. They are mentioned as Ecdini by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Ecdiniorum on the Arc of Susa. The meaning of the ethnonymIngauni (850 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
BC), Ingaunoi (”Iγγαυνοι) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), and as Ingaunis by Pliny (1st c. AD). A Celtic etymology has been suggested by Patrizia de BernardoElaphiti Islands (587 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
tourist season due to their beaches and pristine scenery. Roman author Pliny the Elder was the first to mention the islands by the name Elaphiti IslandsBodiocasses (647 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis. They are mentioned as Bodiocasses by Pliny (1st c. AD), Ou̓adikássioi (Οὐαδικάσσιοι) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), BaiocassiRuspina (290 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Monastir, Tunisia, situated in Roman times in Africa propria, and mentioned by Pliny the Elder and Ptolemy. The Phoenician and Punic name ršpn (𐤓𐤔𐤐𐤍) orUpper Ammonoosuc River (328 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Revolutionary War. The watershed area includes the northern Crescent Range, eastern Pliny Range, and the eastern and northern Pilot Range, all in the White MountainsTechnological history of the Roman military (1,014 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
had occurred in the past and brought benefits, as shown for example by Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia. That tradition continued as the empire grewVindelici (797 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Vindelici and Vindelicorum (var. uendili-, uidelicino-, uideliquo-) by Pliny (1st c. AD), as Vindelicorumque by Tacitus (early 2nd c. AD), and as VindelicorumMausoleum at Halicarnassus (3,895 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
with stones and rubble, sealing the access. According to the historian Pliny the Elder, the craftsmen decided to stay and finish the work after the deathCorolla (headgear) (228 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
authority. The term corolla and/or corollæ appears in a chapter title in Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia: "Who invented the art of making garlands:Philyra (Oceanid) (871 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
ISBN 9780786471119. Apollodorus 1.2.4; Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.38.1; Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.56.3; Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra 1200Choma (Lycia) (478 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Greek: Χῶμα) was a place in the interior of ancient Lycia, according to Pliny on a river Aedesa. Ptolemy places Choma as one of the four cities of theSuetrii (474 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
period. They are mentioned as Suebri (var. suberi, uebri) and Svetri by Pliny (1st c. AD), as Souētrōn (Σουητρ...ων; var. Σουιντρ...ων, Σουκτρ...ων) byChalcedony (1,789 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
probably derived from the town of Chalcedon in Turkey. The name appears in Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia as a term for a translucent kind of jaspisArulenus Rusticus (573 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Fasti of Potentia and Ostia call him Q. Arulenus Rusticus, while Tacitus, Pliny the Younger, and Dio Cassius call him Arulenus Rusticus or Rusticus ArulenusMunicipium (822 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
early Roman Empire these distinctions began to disappear; for example, when Pliny the Elder served in the Roman army, the distinctions were only nominal.Annurca (408 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
apple native to Southern Italy. It is believed to be the one mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia, and in the 16th century by Gian BattistaGaetuli (1,726 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Tunisia, and north of the Atlas. During the Roman period, according to Pliny the Elder, the Autololes Gaetuli established themselves south of the provincePordoselene (469 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
in Greek, called it Poroselene, which is the form employed by Ptolemy, Pliny the Elder, and Aelian. At a still later time the name was changed into ProseleneLoryma (888 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
possible that they may be identical with a place called Larymna mentioned by Pliny in the same district. Loryma was a small fortified town and harbour on theSiren (mythology) (5,594 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
themselves into the water and perished. The first-century Roman historian Pliny the Elder discounted sirens as a pure fable, "although Dinon, the fatherVallikkunnu (1,116 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
between the Cheras and the Roman Empire, is identified with Kadalundi. Pliny the Elder (1st century CE) states that the port of Tyndis was located atDios Hieron (Ionia) (315 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
command of Diomedon. The Chian ships fled from there to Ephesus and Teos. Pliny the Elder says that in his time, the people of Dios Hieron came to EphesusEumeneia (283 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The district of the town bore the name Eumenetica Regio, mentioned by Pliny the Elder. It was inhabited during Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine times;Verbena (2,152 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
generic name is the Latin term for a plant sacred to the ancient Romans. Pliny the Elder describes verbena presented on Jupiter altars; it is not entirelyHomana (342 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
later of Isauria and Lycaonia, inhabited in Hellenistic and Roman times. Pliny the Elder puts the town in Pisidia. It appears in the Synecdemus as partGaetuli (1,726 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Tunisia, and north of the Atlas. During the Roman period, according to Pliny the Elder, the Autololes Gaetuli established themselves south of the provinceMastaura (Caria) (661 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
a kingdom into which Croesus (560-546 BC) briefly incorporated Caria. Pliny the Elder mentions the town as dependent on Ephesus as its provincial capitalGagae (348 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
acropolis and evidence of Rhodian colonization. Several ancient authors (Pliny the Elder, Pedanius Dioscorides, Galenos, Oribasius and Aetios) mentionCorydala (559 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
makes the distance between these two places 29 Roman miles (43 km; 27 mi) Pliny places Corydalla in the interior of Lycia, and Ptolemy mentions it withTyrian purple (4,271 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
obtained and the process of extracting the tissue that produced the dye. Pliny the Elder described the production of Tyrian purple in his Natural History:Koyilandy (2,031 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
written by William Logan in 1887, Panthalayani was called by the names: Pliny the Elder describes the place as Patale. The Odoric of Pordenone calledArtace (Mysia) (375 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
of the name, with an island of the same name near to it, the same which Pliny the Elder calls Artacaeum. Timosthenes, quoted by Stephanus of ByzantiumChaplet (headgear) (891 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
According to Pliny, P. Claudius Pulcher In Chapter 5 of Naturalis Historia, titled "The great honour in which chaplets were held by the ancients" Pliny explainsMedicina Plinii (1,279 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The Medicina Plinii or Medical Pliny is an anonymous Latin compilation of medical remedies dating to the early 4th century AD. The excerptor, saying thatDindari (359 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Valley, of present-day Bosnia and Serbia. According to the Roman author Pliny, the Dindari were a medium-sized Illyrian tribe made up of 33 decury, accountingPrusa (Bithynia) (332 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Bithynia or of Mysia, situated at the northern foot of Mysian Olympus. Pliny the Elder states that the town was built by Hannibal during his stay withSaint Christopher (3,385 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
2021). "Fantastical Humans Roamed Pliny's "Natural History"". Exploring History. Retrieved 12 April 2022. See Pliny: Pliny the Elder (1963) [This translationArmorica (1,566 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
regional name Aremorica referred to the whole area, both coastal and inland. Pliny the Elder, in his Natural History (4.17.105), claims that Armorica was theFrisii (4,619 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
ISBN 1-898281-43-2 Pliny the Elder (1855) [79], Bostock, John; Riley, H. T. (eds.), The Natural History of Pliny, vol. I, Henry G. Bohn Pliny the Elder (1892)Firefighting in ancient Rome (1,117 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
members, it will be easy to keep them under proper regulation. — Pliny, Letters of Pliny Trajan, the emperor at the time responded by saying: You are ofAmber (6,836 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
relatives because of amber's ability to bear a charge of static electricity. Pliny the Elder says that the German name of amber was glæsum, "for which reasonIslands of Diomedes (455 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
buried. The islands are associated with modern-day Palagruža archipelago. Pliny the Elder writes that on Diomedia there was a monument of Diomedes. AntoninusGetae (4,520 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
cataracts on to the Pontus, the part which flows past the country of the Getae. Pliny the Elder, in his Naturalis Historia (Natural History), c. 77–79 AD: ".Quiza Xenitana (668 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Quiza (Ancient Greek: Κούϊζα) also known as Vuiza (Βούϊζα), which Pliny the Elder called Quiza Xenitana, was a Roman–Berber colonia, located in the formerHalizones (254 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Minor. A later scholiast to Homer calls them a Thracian tribe. Meanwhile, Pliny the Elder, Hecataeus of Miletus, Menecrates of Elaea, and Palaephatus placedOrobii (367 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
with the i-stem Orobis, now the Orb river. Some classical writers such as Pliny the Elder thought that their name was of Greek origin, tracing the etymologyAnomoepus (302 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
rested. The footprints were discovered, amongst others, by a farm boy, Pliny Moody.[citation needed] E.B. Hitchcock, a clergyman, described the AnomoepusHanno the Navigator (2,598 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
same time, to explore the remote parts of Europe. — Pliny the Elder, The Natural History 2.67 Pliny may have recorded the time vaguely because he was ignorantList of people named Alcon from classical history (276 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(vulnerum medicus) at Rome in the reign of Claudius, 41–54, who is said by Pliny to have been banished to Gaul, and to have been fined ten million sestertiiVeragri (1,064 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
c. BC), Ou̓áragroi (Οὐάραγροι) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), Varagri by Pliny (1st c. AD), Ouarágrous (Οὐαράγρους) by Cassius Dio (3rd c. AD), and asLarissa Phrikonis (420 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
deserted, although it is mentioned by other ancient geographers such as Pliny the Elder, Ptolemy, and Stephanus of Byzantium. The first excavations inAriana (1,363 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
accuracy in classical sources. It seems to have been often confused (as in Pliny, Naturalis Historia, book vi, chapter 23) with the small province of AriaRoman metallurgy (3,396 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
most important Roman sources of information is the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder. Several books (XXXIII–XXXVII) of his encyclopedia cover metalsCinnamon (4,900 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
where the cinnamon trees grew and used them to construct their nests.: 111 Pliny the Elder wrote that cinnamon was brought around the Arabian peninsula onAgriculture in ancient Rome (5,429 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
and spelt. Barley tolerates no place except one that is loose and dry." Pliny the Elder wrote extensively about agriculture in his Naturalis HistoriaPitane (Aeolis) (696 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
severely from an earthquake. The town is still mentioned by Hierocles. Pliny the Elder mentions in its vicinity a river Canaius, which is not noticedSauromates I (752 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Sauromates I is mentioned in the letters of Roman Senator Pliny the Younger. About 103, Pliny served as the Roman Governor of Bithynia. Sauromates I sentPeiraikos (1,655 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
and he is known only from a brief discussion by the Latin author Pliny the Elder. Pliny's passage comes in the middle of his discussion of painting in BookDionysiopolis (452 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
have been for something that Quintus did during his praetorship of Asia. Pliny places the Dionysopolitae in the conventus of Apamea, which is all the ancientAssos (1,246 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of coast which made it very important for shipping in the Troad. During Pliny the Elder's lifetime (1st century AD), the city was also known as ApolloniaLoeb Classical Library (7,579 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Rhetoricians. Poets (Terence. Virgil. Horace. Tibullus. Persius. Lucan). Lives of Pliny the Elder and Passienus Crispus L035) Volume I. Agricola. Germania. DialogueTerina (ancient city) (868 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Bruttium. The city was rebuilt at some point because it is mentioned again by Pliny the Elder. Material evidence of the presence of an ancient settlement inLevitha (536 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
over Lebinthus. Besides Ovid, the island is noted by the ancient authors Pliny the Elder, Pomponius Mela, Strabo, and Stephanus of Byzantium. In additionTimeline of the name Judea (726 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
travelers from the interior cross into Judea. 78 CE: Pliny the Elder: Et hactenus Iudaea est. Pliny: "The rest of Judaea is divided into ten toparchies:Timarete (232 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
was the daughter of the painter Micon the Younger of Athens. According to Pliny the Elder, she "scorned the duties of women and practised her father's artNoreia (872 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Celtic kingdom of Noricum, it was already referred to as a lost city by Pliny the Elder (AD 23 – AD 79). The location of Noreia has not been verifiedMago (agricultural writer) (672 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Pliny, Naturalis Historia 17.93; Columella, De Arboribus 4.10.1. Pliny, Naturalis Historia 17.63-64, 131. Pliny, Naturalis Historia 21.110-112. PlinyPompeii (10,633 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
uncle, Pliny the Elder, with whom he had a close relationship, died while attempting to rescue stranded victims. As admiral of the fleet, Pliny the ElderGangaridai (3,446 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
elephants which he said ran up to the number of 3,000. Quintus Curtius Rufus Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE) states: ... the last race situated on its [Ganges']Seyhan River (610 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
ancient authors including Livy, Xenophon, Procopius, Strabo, Ptolemy, Appian, Pliny the Elder, and Eustathius of Thessalonica who erroneously calls it SinarusAvantici (615 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
They are only mentioned once as Avanticos (var. acanticos, aganticos) by Pliny (1st c. AD). The Gaulish ethnonym Avantici is a latinized form of the GaulishMuziris (3,978 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Middle East, North Africa, and the (Greek and Roman) Mediterranean region. Pliny the Elder, in his Natural History, hailed Muziris as "the first emporiumEndymion (mythology) (1,969 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
was an astronomer: Pliny the Elder mentions Endymion as the first human to observe the movements of the moon, which (according to Pliny) accounts for Endymion'sPercote (493 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
is mentioned by numerous ancient writers, including Herodotus, Arrian, Pliny the Elder, Apollonius of Rhodes, Stephanus of Byzantium, and in the PeriplusPolykleitos (2,090 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
catalogue attributed to Xenocrates (the "Xenocratic catalogue"), which was Pliny's guide in matters of art, ranked him between Pheidias and Myron. He is particularlyAncient Roman technology (7,194 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
it is theorized that tradesmen kept their knowledge a secret. Vitruvius, Pliny the Elder and Frontinus are among the few writers who have published technicalRoman hairstyles (4,281 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
sessions for women were tolerated, despite writers such as Tertullian and Pliny commenting on their abhorrence for time and energy women dedicate to theirTroglodytae (1,203 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
BCE), Diodorus Siculus (1st century BCE), Strabo (64/63 BCE – c. 24 CE), Pliny (1st century CE), Josephus (37 – c. 100 CE), Tacitus (c. 56 – after 117Assos (1,246 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of coast which made it very important for shipping in the Troad. During Pliny the Elder's lifetime (1st century AD), the city was also known as ApolloniaCarne, Phoenicia (511 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
one of the Aradian coast cities, in which its seaboard harbour is found. Pliny the Elder and Stephanus of Byzantium mention it as a city in northern PhoeniciaBodiontici (405 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) during the Roman period. They are mentioned as Bodionticos by Pliny (1st c. AD). Possible variants are also attested as Brodionti(i), BodionioEuryalus (862 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Iliad. Hackett. ISBN 978-0-87220-352-5. 23.704-719. Hyginus, Fabulae 97 Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.57 Sophocles, Euryalus as cited in PartheniusSalmydessus (502 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of Salmydessus as a district only, but in later authors, as Apollodorus, Pliny the Elder, and Pomponius Mela, it is mentioned as a town. Little is knownAntidotus (176 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Greek painter, mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History Antidotus flourished about 336 BC. According to Pliny he was a pupil of Euphranor,Cleostratus (558 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
argument concerning who established the first known system in the west. Pliny the Elder in his Natural History mentioned the zodiacal circle and commented:Cyaneae (855 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
towns known collectively by the name. Leake observes that in some copies of Pliny it is written Cyane; in Hierocles and the Notitiae Episcopatuum it is CyaneaeNational power (1,900 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
discussed the power of state. Many other classics, such as Mozi, Appian, Pliny the Elder, also concerned the subject. Herodotes described whence derivesSeleucia at the Zeugma (438 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Pompey gave the city and its surroundings to Antiochus I Theos of Commagene; Pliny the Elder nonetheless ascribes it to Coele Syria. The bishop Eusebius ofFortune-telling (3,106 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
suggestion, spiritual or practical advisory or affirmation. Historically, Pliny the Elder describes use of the crystal ball in the 1st century CE by soothsayersNoumenios (297 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
said to have defeated the Persians sometime in the 3rd or 2nd century BCE. Pliny describes his ruler as being "Antiochos", but it is unknown if this is referringPraxiteles (2,287 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
numerous copies of his works have survived; several authors, including Pliny the Elder, wrote of his works; and coins engraved with silhouettes of hisAncient Roman engineering (2,611 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
many other early Roman mines. The methods are described in great detail by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia. He also described deep mining undergroundGaziura (140 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Mithridates VI of Pontus took up his position against the Roman Triarius. (Comp. Pliny vi. 2.) E.g., William Smith E.g., Catholic Encyclopedia E.g., Richard TalbertCimon of Cleonae (190 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
introduced great improvements in drawing. He represented figures, according to Pliny, "out of the straight", and he developed ways of representing faces lookingMnasitheus of Sicyon (107 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(Greek: Μνησίθεος) was an ancient Greek painter of some fame mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History. In 251 BC, a Sicyonian of the same nameDionysodorus (309 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
ancient Greek mathematician. Little is known about the life of Dionysodorus. Pliny the Elder writes about a Dionysodorus who measured the Earth's circumferenceAmurca (193 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
as first described by Cato the Elder in De Agri Cultura, and later by Pliny the Elder. Cato mentions its uses as a building material (128), pesticidePolyaigos (263 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
only by goats. It was mentioned by several ancient geographers: Ptolemy, Pliny the Elder, and Pomponius Mela. Along its longest axis, it is 6 kilometresSeskli (186 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(Ancient Greek: Τεύτλουσα). There can be no doubt that is the same island that Pliny the Elder called Scutlusa. On the island, there are archaeological findingsBituriges Vivisci (590 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Οὐιουίσκων) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), Bituriges liberi cognomine Vivisci by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Bitoúrges oi̔ Ou̓ibískoi (Βιτούργες οἱ Οὐιβίσκοι) byAnaxilaus (103 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
minerals, herbs, and other substances and derived drugs, and is cited by Pliny in this regard. His exceptional knowledge of natural science allowed himBybassus (528 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Diodorus means the same place, when he calls it Bubastus of the Chersonesus. Pliny the Elder has a "regio Bubassus;" and he adds, "there was a town AcanthusPliny and Adelia Fay House (411 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Pliny and Adelia Fay House is a historic residence in Muscatine, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998Vangiones (2,532 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
that had crossed the Rhine (if they did) after the defeat of Ariovistus. Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia includes a geography that relies on VarroAchaei (83 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
with the Zygoi, Heniochi, and Cercetae and Macropogones) and by Pliny (4.26.2). Pliny mentions a Portus Achaeorum at the mouths of the Danube. The nameAD 17 Lydia earthquake (1,005 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
recorded by the Roman historians Tacitus and Pliny the Elder, and the Greek historians Strabo and Eusebius. Pliny called it "the greatest earthquake in humanCercetae (161 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The Cercetae are an ancient people of Scythia mentioned by Strabo and Pliny the Elder. They are one of many ancient tribes of the Northwestern CaucasusTyriaeum (462 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Pisidia, located ten parasangs from Iconium It was mentioned by Xenophon, and Pliny and Strabo tell us it was between Philomelium (Akshehr) and Laodicea CombustaItalian Renaissance garden (4,207 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
gardens given by Ovid in his Metamorphoses, by the letters of Pliny the Younger, by Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia, and in Rerum Rusticanum by VarroNorth Sea Germanic (1,100 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
proto-tribe along the North Sea coast that was mentioned by both Tacitus and Pliny the Elder (the latter also mentioning that tribes in the group includedMedma (429 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Graecia, and it is noticed as a still existing town both by Strabo and Pliny the Elder. But the name is not found in Ptolemy, and all subsequent traceFrisiavones (1,134 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
mentioned in one classical text, the Naturalis Historia by the Roman writer Pliny the Elder, published in 77 AD. In Roman-era epigraphy, however, it appearsSpali (569 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
mentioned in classical geography that inhabited the south of today's Ukraine. Pliny (fl. 77–79) enumerated a group of tribes through which the Don River (Tanais)Pytheas (9,878 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
60 and 30 BC, and Pliny's Natural History (AD 77). Diodorus did not mention Pytheas by name. The association is made as follows: Pliny reported that "TimaeusCadurci (289 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
by Strabo (early 1st c. AD) and Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), and as Cadurci by Pliny (1st c. AD). The etymology of the ethnonym Cadurci remains uncertain. Pierre-YvesDava (Dacian) (1,056 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
the ancients (Dio Cassius, Trogus Pompeius, Appian, Strabo, Herodotus and Pliny the Elder), and were both said to speak the same Thracian language. ManyAristarete (193 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
known to be extant, Pliny the Elder's Natural History contains mention of hers depicting Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine. Pliny includes AristareteSerraepolis (205 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(Σερρέτιλλις), Ser(r)opolis, Serrai kome and Siris, as well as Kassipolis by Pliny. It was a colony established by Siropaiones, a Paeonian tribe that was annexed100s (decade) (3,383 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
saw the emergence of the Moche culture. Emperor Trajan corresponded with Pliny the Younger on the subject of how to deal with the Christians of PontusAlbiones (213 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
coast of modern Spain in western Asturias and eastern Galicia mentioned by Pliny the Elder. They are generally included in maps of Roman Spain. The nameMarion, Cyprus (795 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Akamas region, close to or under the present town of Polis. Both Strabo and Pliny the Elder mention the city in their writings. Marion was already inhabitedEncyclopedism (4,463 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
writing include discussions of agriculture and craft by Roman writers such as Pliny the Elder and Varro – discussions presumably not intended as practical adviceLeucae (Ionia) (272 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Ionia, in the neighbourhood of Phocaea. Leucae was situated, according to Pliny in promontorio quod insula fuit, or, "on an island promontory." From ScylaxApamea (Euphrates) (211 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
(Greek: Ζεῦγμα zeugma) connecting the two, founded by Seleucus I Nicator (Pliny, v. 21). The city was rebuilt by Seleucus I. The site, once partially coveredTexandri (2,056 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
dated 102/103 AD reads Texu<...>. They are also mentioned as Texuandri by Pliny (1st c. AD), which may suggest that the two forms Texuandri and TexandriPytheas (9,878 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
60 and 30 BC, and Pliny's Natural History (AD 77). Diodorus did not mention Pytheas by name. The association is made as follows: Pliny reported that "TimaeusAlerion (435 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Map near the Hydaspes and the Indus, possibly based on a description by Pliny. The word's ultimate origin is unclear, possibly adapted from the GermanCoriosolites (516 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
coricoriosuelites, cariosu-) by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC), and as Coriosvelites by Pliny (1st c. AD). The etymology of the ethnonym Coriosolites remains uncertainCahto language (214 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
has 9 vowel phonemes (including the diphthong) and 12 phones. Goddard, Pliny Earle; Bill Ray (1909). Kato texts. The University Press. Retrieved 24 AugustPerea (2,734 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Semitic name, Gadara, edited to "Gazara" in the Loeb edition). c. 78 CE Pliny the Elder in his work, Naturalis Historia, Book 5(15) wrote; ['Greater Judea'Amurca (193 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
as first described by Cato the Elder in De Agri Cultura, and later by Pliny the Elder. Cato mentions its uses as a building material (128), pesticideHeliades (614 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Sons. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library. Pliny the Elder, Pliny – Natural History, 10 volumes. Translated by Rackham, H.; JonesHistory of the wine press (2,726 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
from which written accounts by Cato the Elder, Marcus Terentius Varro, Pliny the Elder and others described wooden wine presses that utilized large beamsMnasitheus of Sicyon (107 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(Greek: Μνησίθεος) was an ancient Greek painter of some fame mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History. In 251 BC, a Sicyonian of the same nameTransjordan (region) (3,648 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
The Decapolis is named from its ten cities enumerated by Pliny the Elder (23–79). What Pliny calls Decapolis, Ptolemy (c. 100–c. 170) calls Cœle-SyriaYale (mythical creature) (531 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
both offensive and defensive attacks. The yale was first written about by Pliny the Elder in Book VIII of his Natural History. He describes the eale asSan Gregorio da Sassola (136 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Rome, Tivoli. In antiquity, the Aequian town of Aefula mentioned by both Pliny and Livy was situated within the bounds of the modern comune. HammontonLigures (6,729 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
211 miles, between the rivers Varus and Macra. — Pliny the Elder (1st century). Just like Strabo, Pliny the Elder situates Liguria between the rivers VarusSeskli (186 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(Ancient Greek: Τεύτλουσα). There can be no doubt that is the same island that Pliny the Elder called Scutlusa. On the island, there are archaeological findingsVulcan (mythology) (5,442 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
the sacrificial ara, at the order of Tanaquil, Tarquinius Priscus' wife. Pliny the Elder tells the same story, but states that the father was the Lar familiarisKalinga (historical region) (4,037 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
river Ganga DK Ganguly used references from accounts of Pliny and the Mahabharata. He wrote " Pliny has evidently made an unnecessary duplication. UnfortunatelyDamocrates (182 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
become a client of the Servilia gens. Galen calls him ἄριστος ἰατρός, and Pliny says he was "e primis medentium," and relates his cure of Considia, theNumen (1,076 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
coli vellet) "with temples and the effigies of numina" (effigie numinum). Pliny the Younger in a letter to Paternus raves about the "power," the "dignityChilon of Patras (150 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
represent Chilon and that its fate would have been the one described by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History (XXXIV, 62) : the bronze statue was movedObzor (343 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Mesembria. The ancient Romans named it Templum Iovis (Temple of Jupiter); Pliny called it Tetranaulochus. During the Ottoman rule of Bulgaria, it was knownCercetae (161 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The Cercetae are an ancient people of Scythia mentioned by Strabo and Pliny the Elder. They are one of many ancient tribes of the Northwestern CaucasusRes publica (1,783 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
meaning of res publica can differ even within the same paragraph... When Pliny dedicates his Naturalis Historiae to his friend Emperor Vespasian in theDexivates (1,175 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Roman period. The tribe is attested as Dexivatium (var. dexuia-) by Pliny in the 1st century AD. The Gaulish ethnonym Dexiuates derives from the stemEpiphania (Cilicia) (303 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
164 BC. The city is mentioned in the writings of Ptolemy, Ammianus and Pliny the Elder.Cicero stayed there briefly during his exile. In 66 BC, the RomanList of ancient Colchian tribes (185 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
und Kultur. Institut zur Erforschung des westlichen Denkens, Tbilissi. Pliny the Elder. Natural History. pp. Book VI, section IV. Archived from the originalErythraean Sea (1,252 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
C1st AD) Pliny, Natural History 4. 36. (trans. Bostock & Riley) (Roman history C1st AD) Pliny, Natural History 7. 57 (trans. Rackham) Pliny, Natural HistoryVolcanology (2,788 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
and description of Vesuvius' eruptions. Plato (428–348 BC) Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) Pliny the Younger (61 – c. 113 AD) George-Louis Leclerc, Comte deConstantia (Osrhoene) (494 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Antiochia in Arabia (Ἀντιόχεια ἡ Ἀραβική – Antiocheia e Arabike). According to Pliny it was founded by Seleucus I Nicator after the death of Alexander the GreatParappanad (1,488 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Cheras and the Roman Empire, during Sangam period (1st-4th century CE). Pliny the Elder (1st century CE) states that the port of Tyndis was located atMithridates VI Eupator (5,565 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
consume it daily. The original formula has been entirely lost, although Pliny reports that Mithridates' various antidotes usually included the blood ofScandza (1,425 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Northern European island appears in the work of Roman Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia of c. AD 77. Pliny described "Scandia" as an island located north ofAlauda (1,107 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the fossil record. The current genus name is from Latin alauda, "lark". Pliny the Elder thought the word was originally of Celtic origin. The genus AlaudaIaia (662 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
According to Pliny the Elder: "No one had a quicker hand than she in painting". Most of her paintings are said to have been of women. Pliny attributes toHistoria Plantarum (Theophrastus book) (3,466 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
phyton historia) was, along with his mentor Aristotle's History of Animals, Pliny the Elder's Natural History and Dioscorides's De materia medica, one ofAegle (mythology) (1,171 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Papyri trans. Fowler 1995 Vol 61 p. 56) (Greek mythography C1st BC to 1stAD) Pliny the Elder, Natural History 35. 40. 137 (trans. Rackham) (Roman encyclopediaVermio Mountains (349 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
resorts such as Seli and Tria Pente Pigadia. It was mentioned in antiquity by Pliny, Strabo, Stephen of Byzantium, Hierocles, Ptolemy, and Thucydides and HerodotusVulca (188 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
would paint their faces red during their triumphal marches through Rome. Pliny the Elder wrote that his works were "the finest images of deities of thatVediantii (742 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), and an oppidum Vediantiorum civitatis is documented by Pliny (1st c. AD). The ethnonym Vediantii is probably Celtic. It has been interpretedAzurite (1,801 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2, has been known since ancient times, and was mentioned in Pliny the Elder's Natural History under the Greek name kuanos (κυανός: "deep blueNicomachus of Thebes (317 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Classical period. He trained under his father Aristides, also a painter. Pliny gives a list of his works; among them a Rape of Proserpina, Victory in aCaecilia gens (3,216 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
statesman "Pliny the Younger". Lucius Caecilius Cilo, father of the writer and statesman "Pliny the Younger". Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus , or "Pliny thePersecution of Christians in the Roman Empire (14,335 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
correspondence between Emperor Trajan (98-117) and Pliny the Younger".: 314 Trajan's correspondence with Pliny does indeed show that Christians were being executedArt history (5,685 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
writing on art that can be classified as art history are the passages in Pliny the Elder's Natural History (c. AD 77–79), concerning the development ofAbrincatui (345 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Peninsula during the Roman period. They are mentioned as Abrincatuos by Pliny (1st c. AD), ’Abrinkátouoi (’Aβρινκάτουοι) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), and asVulca (188 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
would paint their faces red during their triumphal marches through Rome. Pliny the Elder wrote that his works were "the finest images of deities of thatWhite Aethiopians (1,489 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
populations inhabiting the Aethiopia region of antiquity. The exonym is used by Pliny the Elder, and is also mentioned by Pomponius Mela, Ptolemy and OrosiusAegospotami (452 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
ancient Thrace in the Chersonese. According to ancient sources including Pliny the Elder and Aristotle, in 467 BC a large meteorite landed near AegospotamiList of ancient Colchian tribes (185 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
und Kultur. Institut zur Erforschung des westlichen Denkens, Tbilissi. Pliny the Elder. Natural History. pp. Book VI, section IV. Archived from the originalCaecilia gens (3,216 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
statesman "Pliny the Younger". Lucius Caecilius Cilo, father of the writer and statesman "Pliny the Younger". Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus , or "Pliny theTally stick (1,730 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
a notable example is the Ishango Bone. Historical reference is made by Pliny the Elder (AD 23–79) about the best wood to use for tallies, and by MarcoSalammoniac (664 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Salammoniac is also the archaic name for the chemical compound ammonium chloride. Pliny, in Book XXXI of his Natural History, refers to a salt produced in the RomanAzurite (1,801 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2, has been known since ancient times, and was mentioned in Pliny the Elder's Natural History under the Greek name kuanos (κυανός: "deep blueCanary Islands in pre-colonial times (1,939 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Carthaginians. According to the 1st century CE Roman author and philosopher Pliny the Elder, the archipelago was found to be uninhabited when visited by theJulia gens (6,163 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
272. AE 1925, 85. Tacitus,, Annales, xii. 49. Pliny the Elder, xx. index. Tacitus, Agricola, xiii. 10. Pliny the Elder, xxvi. 1. s. 4. Tacitus, HistoriaeVenostes (214 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
inscription on the Tropaeum Alpium. In the secondary tradition of the text by Pliny the Elder their position in the list was exchanged with the Vennonetes andSilvanectes (298 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Senlis (Oise) during the Roman period. They are mentioned as Ulmanectes by Pliny (1st c. AD), as Soubánektoi (Σουβάνεκτοι) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), and asRoman gardens (2,911 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
common kinds. A notable example is the maritime villa at Laurentum, which Pliny the Younger describes at length in his letters. Villa gardens were lavishlyLivy (3,107 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
it was published and remained so during the early years of the empire. Pliny the Younger reported that Livy's celebrity was so widespread, a man fromCocosates (306 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
as Cocosates by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC), and as Cocosates Sexsignani by Pliny (1st c. AD). The etymology of the name remains obscure. It can be derivedFascinus (1,336 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
effigies and amulets, and to the spells used to invoke his divine protection. Pliny calls it a medicus invidiae, a "doctor" or remedy for envy (invidia, a "lookingAristophon (painter) (161 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
mentioned by Pliny the Elder. Aristophon was the son and pupil of the elder Aglaophon, and brother of Polygnotus. He was a native of Thasos. Pliny, who placesFrancisco P. Temple (519 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
on the first Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in 1852. Francisco Pliny Fisk (F.P.F) Temple was born in Reading, Massachusetts was the youngestZgërdhesh (542 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
however, that it may be the site of ancient Albanopolis, referred to by Pliny the Elder. The Illyrian settlement here seems to have been founded in theCanal of the Pharaohs (1,777 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Darius the Great, but later ancient authors like Aristotle, Strabo, and Pliny the Elder claim that he failed to complete the work. Another possibilityMount Chimaera (893 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
with a flame that does not die by day or night." Pliny was quoted by Photius and Agricola. Strabo and Pliny are the only surviving ancient sources who wouldCeutrones (804 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Keútrōnes (Κεύτρωνες; var. Κέντ-) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), Ceutrones by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Keutrónōn (Κευτρόνων) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD). The hamletPaltus (313 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Arvad or Aradus (Arrianus, Anab. II, xiii, 17). It is located in Syria by Pliny the Elder (Hist. Natur., V, xviii) and Ptolemy (V, xiv, 2); Strabo (XV,Siculotae (376 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Procopius in Macedonia was likely located in this area of Epirus Nova. Pliny the Elder records a civitatum of the Siculotae with 24 decuriae among thePoems by Julius Caesar (805 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
offered the Cilician pirates who captured him as a young man in 75 BC. Pliny places "the divine Julius" on his list of serious men who wrote not-so-seriousLigauni (299 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Iron Age and the Roman period. They are mentioned as Ligaunorumque by Pliny (1st c. AD). A (colonia) in Liga in also attested in the Early Middle AgesMeges of Sidon (162 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
which nothing remains. He is, perhaps, the same person who is quoted by Pliny, Galen, and Scribonius Largus. A Greek fragment by Meges is preserved byMergus (1,021 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
ducks in the subfamily Anatinae. The genus name is a Latin word used by Pliny the Elder and other Roman authors to refer to an unspecified waterbird.Hexameter (752 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
htm Dactylic hexameter Prosody (Latin) Poetic meter Pausanias, 10.5.7 Pliny the Elder, 7.57 Stephen Greenblatt et al. The Norton Anthology of EnglishMeninx (town) (279 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Meninx town was a major producer of priceless murex dye, and is cited by Pliny the Elder as second only to Tyre in this regard. The first archaeologistsAcherusia (807 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
7 Xenophon Anab. vi.2.2 & Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 14.31 Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.5 & Strabo, Geographica v. p. 243 DiodorusJacob Marley (3,498 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1841 An ancient ghost story by Pliny, History of Yesterday website Pliny the Younger. "LXXXIII. To Sura". bartleby.com. RetrievedLimonium (988 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
or leadwort family. The generic name is from the Latin līmōnion, used by Pliny for a wild plant and is ultimately derived from the Ancient Greek leimonSegovellauni (1,345 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
σεταλλανοι) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD). A regio segovellaunorum is also attested by Pliny (1st c. AD). The ethnonym Segovellauni is a latinized form of Gaulish *SegouellaunoiCharax Spasinu (1,519 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
confluence of the Eulaios/Karkheh and the Tigris as recorded by Pliny the Elder. According to Pliny the Elder: The town of Charax is situated in the innermostKozhikode Municipal Corporation (1,182 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of trade, next only to Muziris, between the Cheras and the Roman Empire. Pliny the Elder (1st century CE) states that the port of Tyndis was located atApollonia (Mygdonia) (175 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Amphipolis, as we learn from the Acts of the Apostles, and the Itineraries. Pliny the Elder mentions this Apollonia. The site of Apollonia is near the modernSimoeis (384 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
geographers Strabo, Ptolemy, Stephanus of Byzantium, Pomponius Mela, and Pliny the Elder. Its present course is so altered that it is no longer a tributaryTacitus on Jesus (4,560 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Christianity. Other possible references include those by Flavius Josephus, Pliny the Younger, and Suetonius. The last of these, Suetonius, also seems toVellavii (275 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
var. -άοιοι, -άϊοι) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), Vellavi (var. velavi) by Pliny (1st c. AD), Ou̓éllaunoi (Οὐέλλαυνοι, var. Οὐέλλενες) by Ptolemy (2nd cCantabrian mythology (1,943 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
place dedicated to the nymph of a spring that had medicinal properties. Pliny the Elder mentions the existence of three intermittent springs in CantabriaArthyde, Minnesota (184 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Lane. Aitkin County Road 2 (220th Street) is nearby. Nearby places include Pliny, McGrath, Ellson, Denham, Sturgeon Lake, and Willow River. Arthyde is 16Caligula's Giant Ship (220 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
03 m). It was probably able to carry 1,300 tons of cargo. According to Pliny, this or a similar ship was used to transport the obelisk in St. Peter'sKaramenderes River (797 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
declaration of the poet that the two names belonged to the same river, Pliny the Elder mentions the Xanthus and Scamander as two distinct rivers, andShabwa (225 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
located in the north of modern Shabwah Governorate of the Republic of Yemen. Pliny the Elder and Strabo refer to the city as Sabota, formerly a royal cityRoman triumph (7,620 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
19–52. Trans P. Green. Pliny attributes the invention of the triumph to "Father Liber" (identified with Dionysus): see Pliny, Historia Naturalis, 7.57Kadalundi (1,390 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of trade, next only to Muziris, between the Cheras and the Roman Empire. Pliny the Elder (1st century CE) states that the port of Tyndis was located atAchilles (10,043 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Philologie. 131 (3): 1–7. Quintus Smyrnaeus, 3.770–779. Pliny, Naturalis Historia 4.12.83 (chapter 4.26). Pliny, Naturalis Historia 4.13.93 (chapter 4.27): "ResearchesSinuessa (1,463 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Triumvirate, but did not retain the rank of a colonia and is termed by Pliny as well as the Liber Coloniarum only an oppidum, or ordinary municipal townOnyx (1,260 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
produced from common chalcedony and plain agates. The first-century naturalist Pliny the Elder described these techniques being used in Roman times. TreatmentsEarth's circumference (2,446 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Earth's circumference to be 180,000 stadia or 18,000 mi (29,000 km). Pliny the Elder mentions Posidonius among his sources and—without naming him—reportedManius Curius Dentatus (636 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
War and for his military exploits during the Pyrrhic War. According to Pliny, he was born with teeth, thus earning the surname Dentatus, "toothed." DentatusMorini (1,560 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Roman period. They are mentioned as Morini by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC) and Pliny (1st c. AD), Morinoì (Μορινοὶ) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), Morinos by PomponiusCavari (1,396 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
mentioned as Kaouárōn (Καουάρων) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), Cavarum by Pliny (1st c. AD), Cavarum and Cavaras by Pomponius Mela (mid-1st c. AD), KaúaroiCabira (846 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Lycus. But Niksar is the ancient Neocaesarea, a name which first occurs in Pliny, who says that it is on the Lycus. There is no trace of any ancient cityAntiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum (461 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
work have also been transmitted by other authors, including (among others) Pliny (1st c.), Gellius (2nd c.), Censorinus (3rd c.), Servius (4th/5th c.), NoniusPellendones (570 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Iberian Peninsula Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis, III, 26. Livy, Fragmenta Librii, 91. Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis, III, 26. Pliny the Elder, HistoriaApollonos Hieron (428 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
believed that both cities were adjacent to each other and this may explain why Pliny thought the name of Tripolis had previously been Apollonos. He more generallyAdriatic Veneti (3,147 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
through Noricum, to the Dalmatian coast before the coming of the Veneti. Pliny the Elder (AD 23–79) mentions that Cornelius Nepos (100–24 BC) implied thatFicus Ruminalis (910 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
vestigia, "traces," perhaps the stump. A textually problematic passage in Pliny seems to suggest that the tree was miraculously transplanted by the augurFontes Tamarici (912 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Fountains), are three springs located by the geographer and Roman historian Pliny the Elder in classical Cantabria. Since the 18th century they have beenAugury (1,912 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
auspices in order to delay certain state functions, such as elections. Pliny the Elder attributes the invention of auspicy to Tiresias the seer of ThebesGreat Pyramid of Giza (16,632 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
suggests that the pyramid could be entered at this time. The Roman writer Pliny the Elder, writing in the first century AD, argued that the Great PyramidApollonia (Mygdonia) (175 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Amphipolis, as we learn from the Acts of the Apostles, and the Itineraries. Pliny the Elder mentions this Apollonia. The site of Apollonia is near the modern70s (3,286 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
theatre of Marcellus. Valerius Flaccus wrote the Argonautica, an epic poem. Pliny the Elder composed the 10-volume Natural History, covering topics includingClassical compass winds (10,247 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the wind (Pliny, Natural History, Bk. 18, ch.77 (vol. 4: p.114) cf. Pliny Bk. 2, Ch.46 versus Pliny Bk. 18, Ch.77 See editor's note in Pliny, p.74. AlsoMacrobians (1,793 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
positioned in the Horn of Africa mentioned by Herodotus. Later authors (so Pliny on the authority of Ctesias' Indika) place them in India instead. It isKadalundi (1,390 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of trade, next only to Muziris, between the Cheras and the Roman Empire. Pliny the Elder (1st century CE) states that the port of Tyndis was located atTurduli (743 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Istoriai, II, 33; IV, 49. Ptolemy, Geographia, II, 5. Pliny the Elder, Natural History, IV, 116-118. Pliny the Elder, Natural History, IV, 21. Pomponius MelaÇoruh (551 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Arrian's Periplus Ponti Euxini, it is called the Acampsis (Greek: Άκαμψις); Pliny may have confused it with the Bathys. Procopius writes that it was calledAristolaos (87 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Sicyon, and who was the son and pupil of the painter Pausias. According to Pliny he was a very austere painter. He tried to improve the work of his fatherSardiatae (534 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
and Šipovo, in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina. They are mentioned by Pliny the Elder, who locates them in the conventus iuridicus of Salonae, and reportsAsturcón (743 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
since Roman times: it has an unusual ambling gait, which was described by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia. It is of Celtic type, and shows similarityPhoristae (76 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
spoke a Sarmatian language of the Scythian family. They are mentioned by Pliny the Elder as living north of the Amazons and Hyperboreans, with the CimmeriCatoblepas (1,159 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
downwards") is a legendary creature from Aethiopia, first described by Pliny the Elder and later by Claudius Aelianus. One known description of the CatoblepasTemnos (448 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
decline; under Tiberius it was destroyed by an earthquake; and in the time of Pliny it was no longer inhabited. It was, however, rebuilt later. One of the city'sCeltici (1,896 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
as Pax Julia (Beja). The origin of the Baeturian Celts was, according to Pliny, from the Celtici of Lusitania and were also kin to the Gallaeci: Latin:Segusiavi (406 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
as Segosianō͂n (Σεγοσιανῶν) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), as Segusiavi by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Segousō̃antoi (Σεγουσῶαντοι) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD)Heraclea Lucania (1,835 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
who mentions the share taken by the Thurians in its original foundation. Pliny erroneously regards Heraclea as identical with Siris, to which it had succeeded;Almandine (597 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The name is a corruption of alabandicus, which is the name applied by Pliny the Elder to a stone found or worked at Alabanda, a town in Caria in AsiaNashan (431 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
city was called Nestum in the Natural History book that was written by Pliny the Elder. Nashan, located near "Al-Khārid river" along with the neighboringPliny Earle Goddard (1,804 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Pliny Earle Goddard (November 24, 1869 – July 12, 1928) was an American linguist and ethnologist noted for his extensive documentation of the languagesArachne (2,041 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
that the spider is hated by Athena, but did not explain the reason why. Pliny the Elder wrote that Arachne had a son, Closter (meaning "spindle" in Greek)Romans in sub-Saharan Africa (1,876 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Ancient Carthage explorer, Hanno the Navigator, being referenced by the Roman Pliny the Elder (c. 23–79) and the Greek Arrian of Nicomedia (c. 86–160). HoweverMyron (1,023 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Boeotia and Attica. According to Natural History, a Latin encyclopedia by Pliny the Elder (AD 23 – 79), a scholar in Ancient Rome, Ageladas of Argos wasYizhar Hirschfeld (487 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
site—its location above Ein Gedi, simplicity, and unique nature—conform to Pliny the Elder's (d. 79 A.D.) famous passage on the Essenes". His proposal onSpondolici (48 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(ancient Tanais) crossed. They were mentioned by Pliny the Elder (23–79). Spali Spondophoroi Pliny the Elder (1958). Natural history. Translated by HarrisPapyrus (3,405 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
was still an option. Papyrus was made in several qualities and prices. Pliny the Elder and Isidore of Seville described six variations of papyrus thatVicarius (480 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Nonius Marcellus Obsequens Orosius Ovid Petronius Phaedrus Plautus Pliny the Elder Pliny the Younger Pomponius Mela Priscian Propertius Quadrigarius QuintilianSangarius Bridge (1,069 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
writers, and has been associated with a supposed project, first proposed by Pliny the Younger to Emperor Trajan, to construct a navigable canal that wouldGrass Crown (472 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
such as wheat; it was presented to the general by the army he had saved. Pliny wrote about the grass crown at some length in his Natural History (NaturalisBuddhism and the Roman world (2,090 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Philadelphus, one of the monarchs Ashoka mentions in his edicts, is recorded by Pliny the Elder as having sent an ambassador named Dionysius to the Mauryan courtSupsa (river) (135 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia. Statistical Yearbook of Georgia: 2020, National Statistics Office of Georgia, Tbilisi, 2020, p. 12. Pliny theHellenistic-era warships (4,707 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Ferreiro 2010. Pliny, Natural History, VII.207; Aelian, Various History, VI.12 Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, L.23.2 Meijer (1986), p. 119 Pliny, Natural HistoryTricasses (357 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
probably reckoned among the Senones. They are mentioned as Tricasses by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Trikásioi (Τρικάσιοι) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD). The GaulishEclipse of Thales (966 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
eclipse during the reign of Astyages, the last king of the Median empire. Pliny the Elder mentions as well that Thales had predicted a solar eclipse duringEburovices (412 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Eburovices by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC), Aulerci qui cognominantur Eburovices by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Au̓lírkioioi̔ E̓bourouikoì (Αὐλίρκιοιοἱ Ἐβουρουικοὶ)Veliocasses (735 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of Eure. They are mentioned as Veliocasses by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC) and Pliny (1st c. AD), as Ou̓éliokásioi (Οὐέλιοκάσιοι; var. οὐενελιοάσιοι) by PtolemyCornelius Nepos (1,492 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
not far from Verona. Nepos's Cisalpine birth is attested by Ausonius, and Pliny the Elder calls him Padi accola ("a dweller on the River Po", NaturalisVocontii (2,495 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
mentioned as Vocontiorum by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC), Livy (late 1st c. BC), Pliny (1st c. AD) and Pomponius Mela (mid-1st c. AD), as Ouokóntioi (Οὐοκόντιοι)Ancient Roman cuisine (3,696 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Roman diet included many items that are staples of modern Italian cooking. Pliny the Elder discussed more than 30 varieties of olive, 40 kinds of pear, figsVeliocasses (735 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of Eure. They are mentioned as Veliocasses by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC) and Pliny (1st c. AD), as Ou̓éliokásioi (Οὐέλιοκάσιοι; var. οὐενελιοάσιοι) by PtolemyAurelian Walls (1,466 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
city at the time embraced 2,400 hectares (5,900 acres).[citation needed] Pliny the Elder in the first century AD suggested that the densely populated areasAtriplex (2,212 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
moist environments. The generic name originated in Latin and was applied by Pliny the Elder to the edible oraches. The name saltbush derives from the factViducasses (575 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Iron Age and the Roman period. They are mentioned as Viducasses by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Bidoukesíōn (Βιδουκεσίων; var. Βιδουκασίων, Βιδουκαίσιων)Pirithous (1,414 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
sect. 4; Book 10, Ch. 29, sect. 2) Ovid, Metamorphoses (Book 8, ln. 566) Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.4 Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca (BookHellenistic-era warships (4,707 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Ferreiro 2010. Pliny, Natural History, VII.207; Aelian, Various History, VI.12 Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, L.23.2 Meijer (1986), p. 119 Pliny, Natural HistoryBdellium (1,058 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
africana trees growing in sub-saharan Africa.[citation needed] According to Pliny the best quality came from Bactria. Other named sources for the resin arePapyrus (3,405 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
was still an option. Papyrus was made in several qualities and prices. Pliny the Elder and Isidore of Seville described six variations of papyrus thatPliny W. Williamson (270 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Pliny Wilson Williamson (September 24, 1876 – October 21, 1958) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was born on September 24, 1876Rimphaces (79 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
spoke a Sarmatian language of the Scythian family. They are mentioned by Pliny the Elder as living north of the Amazons and Hyperboreans, with the CimmeriAthenodorus Cananites (549 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
result of which was a pro-Roman oligarchy. Athenodorus is also written of by Pliny the Younger, who tells us of Athenodorus' renting of a haunted house inAlazani (407 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
is likely the same as that referred to by classical authors Strabo and Pliny as "Alazonius" or "Alazon", and may also be the Abas River mentioned byPapirius Fabianus (365 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
He had also paid great attention to physical science, and is called by Pliny the Elder rerum naturae peritissimus, "very experienced in matters of natureHistory of mineralogy (2,794 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
ancient India. Books on the subject included the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder which not only described many different minerals but also explainedAequi (968 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
wars between the Aequi and Rome; the geographers scarcely mention them. Pliny the Elder and Ptolemy both make the same brief statement: the towns of theHaunted house (4,357 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
established." In the first century A.D., the Roman author and statesman Pliny the Younger recorded a ghost story in his letters, which became famous forRoman folklore (176 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Nonius Marcellus Obsequens Orosius Ovid Petronius Phaedrus Plautus Pliny the Elder Pliny the Younger Pomponius Mela Priscian Propertius Quadrigarius QuintilianEuphranor (191 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
BC) was a Greek artist who excelled both as a sculptor and as a painter. Pliny the Elder provides a list of his works including a cavalry battle, a TheseusNelcynda (1,117 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(Ancient Greek: Νέλκυνδα) is a place in ancient Kerala. It was described in Pliny's classical work The Natural History as well as in Periplus of the ErythraeanNeapolis (Sardinia) (334 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
both also Phoenician settlements. (Itin. Ant. p. 84.) It is noticed by Pliny as one of the most important towns in Sardinia; and its name is found alsoBuddhism and the Roman world (2,090 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Philadelphus, one of the monarchs Ashoka mentions in his edicts, is recorded by Pliny the Elder as having sent an ambassador named Dionysius to the Mauryan courtTrebula Balliensis (464 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
tract which extends from near Caiatia (modern Caiazzo) to the Via Latina. Pliny terms the citizens Trebulani cognomine Balinienses, probably to distinguishTiberius (7,427 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
dark, reclusive and sombre ruler who never really wanted to be emperor; Pliny the Elder called him "the gloomiest of men". Tiberius was born in Rome onThe Birth of Venus (4,816 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
magnanimity. Pliny went on to note that Apelles' painting of Pankaspe as Venus was later "dedicated by Augustus in the shrine of his father Caesar." Pliny alsoMartial (3,044 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Quintilian, he numbered among his friends Silius Italicus, Juvenal and Pliny the Younger. Despite the two authors writing at the same time and havingRegio VI Umbria (1,265 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
divided Italy. The main source for the regions is the Historia Naturalis of Pliny the Elder, who informs his readers he is basing the geography of Italy onAnise (2,042 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(diarrhea), and also the white flux (leukorrhea) in women. According to Pliny the Elder, anise was used as a cure for sleeplessness, chewed with alexandersAristoclides (584 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Aristoclides was a painter mentioned by Pliny the Elder as one of those who deserved to be ranked next to the "masters" in their art. His age and countryBylliones (3,260 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Bylliones reappear in the late 1st century CE when they are mentioned by Pliny the Elder in the Natural History (c. 79 CE) as one of the "barbarian" tribesColumella (1,823 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Columella's work "appears to have been but little read", cited only by Pliny the Elder, Servius, Cassiodorus, and Isidorus, and having fallen "into almostNatural history (2,868 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
anything connected with nature, or used materials drawn from nature, such as Pliny the Elder's encyclopedia of this title, published c. 77 to 79 AD, whichTurmodigi (645 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
local epigraphic sources. Designated Turmodigi by the Roman geographer Pliny the Elder, they are also mentioned in other Roman texts under the namesAnthus (mythology) (482 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Anthedonia and Hypereia. Antoninus Liberalis, 7 as cited in Boeus' Ornithogonia; Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.57 Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 19 referringAgape feast (3,993 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Letter to the Smyrnaeans, where the term agape is used, and in a letter from Pliny the Younger to Trajan, (ca. 111 A.D.) in which he reported that the ChristiansSanni (371 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(Georgian: სანები) are mentioned by Strabo (1st century BC/1st century AD), Pliny the Elder (1st century AD) and Arrian (2nd century AD) as a people settlingHispania Tarraconensis (3,152 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
governor, carrying out policing, and supervising mining work in the province. Pliny the Elder served as procurator in Tarraconensis in AD 73. Under DiocletianAllifae (724 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
frontiers of Campania, and is enumerated among the Campanian cities by Pliny, and by Silius Italicus but Strabo expressly calls it a Samnite city ThatScience in classical antiquity (6,345 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
attempt to classify minerals and rocks, a summary of which is found in Pliny's Natural History. The legacy of Greek science in this era included substantialCloacina (427 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Cabbage," Hermes, 91, (1963), p. 457, citing Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book 15, 119 – 121. Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 15, 119, cited inLucius Verginius Rufus (423 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
69, and 97). He was born near Comum, the birthplace of both Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger. Verginius Rufus was born in Northern Italy as a memberHerculaneum (5,155 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
reconstructed based on archaeological excavations and two letters from Pliny the Younger to the Roman historian Tacitus. At around 1 pm on the firstNero's exploration of the Nile (703 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
now called "the Sudd" in South Sudan. But other Roman historians, such as Pliny, suggest that the exploration was done in order to prepare a conquest ofHarpasa (492 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
by Ptolemy, by Stephanus Byzantius, by Hierocles, and by Pliny the Elder. According to Pliny, there was in the neighbourhood a rocking-stone which couldMediomatrici (671 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Mediomatrikoì (Μεδιοματρικοὶ ) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), Mediomatrici by Pliny (1st c. AD), Mediomatricos (acc.) by Tacitus (early 2nd c. AD), and as MediomátrikesAulerci Cenomani (820 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
totidem [all the same] by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC), Aulerci .... Cenomani by Pliny (1st c. AD), as Au̓lírkioioi̔ oi̔ Kenománnoi (Αὐλίρκιοιοἱ οἱ Κενομάννοι)Apollodorus (painter) (1,544 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Apollodorus, although he was catalogued by the notable historians Plutarch and Pliny the Elder. It was recorded that Apollodorus was active around 480 BCE; hisCryptoporticus (489 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
It is often vaulted and lit by openings in the vault. In the letters of Pliny the Younger, the term is used as a synonym of crypt. The shade and semi-excavatedSuebi (8,871 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
was not an old tribal group itself, the Suebian peoples are associated by Pliny the Elder with the Irminones, a grouping of Germanic peoples who claimedNero (9,907 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
needed] Pliny the Elder The history of Nero by Pliny the Elder (c. 24–79) did not survive. Still, there are several references to Nero in Pliny's NaturalAmasra (1,813 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
by Lucius Lucullus in 70 BC in the second Mithridatic War. The younger Pliny, when he was governor of Bithynia and Pontus, describes Amastris, in a letterAganippe (naiad) (383 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-CLIO. p. 14. ISBN 9780874365818. Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.12.1 Smith, "Aganippe" 1.; Pausanias, 9Nitiobroges (528 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
nithiobrogibus) by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC), Nitiobroges (var. antobroges) by Pliny (1st c. AD), Nitióbriges (Νιτιόβριγες) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), and as NisiobrogesMedical community of ancient Rome (3,596 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Natural History of Pliny the Elder became a paradigm for all subsequent works like it and gave its name to the topic, although Pliny was not himself anInterpretatio graeca (2,174 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
similarity and produced the idea or conviction that the gods are international. Pliny the Elder expressed the "translatability" of deities as "different names1883 New York state election (468 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
and Attorney General Leslie W. Russell, were re-nominated by acclamation. Pliny T. Sexton was nominated for Treasurer on the first ballot (vote: SextonBylliones (3,260 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Bylliones reappear in the late 1st century CE when they are mentioned by Pliny the Elder in the Natural History (c. 79 CE) as one of the "barbarian" tribesMediomatrici (671 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Mediomatrikoì (Μεδιοματρικοὶ ) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), Mediomatrici by Pliny (1st c. AD), Mediomatricos (acc.) by Tacitus (early 2nd c. AD), and as MediomátrikesGrape syrup (2,056 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
informed different reductions, as follows: The elder Cato, Columella, and Pliny all describe how unfermented grape juice (mustum, must) was boiled to concentrateFortune favours the bold (1,879 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Venusque iuvat" or "Venus, like Fortune, favors the bold." Pliny the Younger quotes his uncle, Pliny the Elder, as using the phrase Fortes fortuna iuvat whenMartial (3,044 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Quintilian, he numbered among his friends Silius Italicus, Juvenal and Pliny the Younger. Despite the two authors writing at the same time and havingChalcedon (1,358 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
since prehistoric times. Phoenicians were active traders in this area. Pliny states that Chalcedon was first named Procerastis, a name which may be derivedThomas Earle (American politician) (565 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
14, 1849) was an American journalist, lawyer, and politician. The son of Pliny Earle, he was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, the descendant of RalphCape Palos (276 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
word palus, meaning ‘lagoon’, a reference to the Mar Menor. According to Pliny the Elder and Rufus Festus Avienus, there was once a temple dedicated toNero's exploration of the Nile (703 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
now called "the Sudd" in South Sudan. But other Roman historians, such as Pliny, suggest that the exploration was done in order to prepare a conquest ofCrinas of Marseilles (353 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
astrological knowledge. What we know about him comes from a few lines of Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, book XXIX, 5 (9). Having heard of ThessalusShrine of Venus Cloacina (737 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
identified with the Roman goddess Venus for unknown reasons, according to Pliny the Elder. According to legend, the foundation and cult of the Shrine wasTaurini (489 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
c. BC), Taurinoí (Ταυρινοί) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), Taurinorum by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Taurínōn (Ταυρίνων; var. Ταυρικῶν, Ταυρινῶν) by PtolemyHarpasa (492 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
by Ptolemy, by Stephanus Byzantius, by Hierocles, and by Pliny the Elder. According to Pliny, there was in the neighbourhood a rocking-stone which couldCittà di Castello (1,385 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Romans knew it as Tifernum Tiberinum ("Tifernum on the Tiber"). Nearby Pliny the Younger built his villa in Tuscis, which is identified with walls, mosaicIacetani (534 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Aquitanes. They were known to stamp coins. They also appear in the texts of Pliny the Elder and Ptolemy. Their affiliation with the Vascones is disputableAgesander of Rhodes (1,265 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
an Agesander. The name Agesander is only found in ancient literature in Pliny the Elder, but occurs in several inscriptions, though between them theseQuintilian (3,197 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Quintilian opened a public school of rhetoric. Among his students were Pliny the Younger, and perhaps Tacitus. The Emperor Vespasian made him a consulNerium (5,711 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
for the plant, including rhododaphne, nerion, rhododendron and rhodon. Pliny confirmed that the Romans had no Latin word for the plant, but used theSerica (2,781 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
be transacted behind their backs, leaving their wares in a desert spot. Pliny the Elder discussed the Seres in his Natural History, Book VI, chapter xxUmbri (1,912 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
and the Suebi, among the tribes of Northern Europe in the poem Widsith. Pliny the Elder wrote concerning the folk-etymology of the name: The Umbrian peopleTauri (1,139 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Ancient Greek), or Taurians, also Scythotauri, Tauri Scythae, Tauroscythae (Pliny, H. N. 4.85) were an ancient people settled on the southern coast of theTindari (1,989 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
coast of Sicily which, in his time, still deserved the name of cities; and Pliny gives it the title of a Colonia. It is probable that it received a colonyHimilco (417 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
voyage is a brief mention in Natural History (2.169a) by the Roman scholar Pliny the Elder. Himilco was quoted three times by Rufius Festus Avienius, whoGabali (407 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
BC), as Gabalei͂s (Γαβαλεῖς) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), as Gabales by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Tábaloi (Τάβαλοι) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD). The ethnonymRegio VI Umbria (1,265 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
divided Italy. The main source for the regions is the Historia Naturalis of Pliny the Elder, who informs his readers he is basing the geography of Italy onHistories (Tacitus) (1,211 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
fourteen are assigned to Histories and sixteen to the Annals. Tacitus' friend Pliny the Younger referred to "your histories" when writing to Tacitus about theAlimia (454 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
is mentioned in ancient texts as Eulimna (Ancient Greek: Εὔλιμνα) and by Pliny the Elder under the name Evlimnia and associated with two large bays ofLucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi (consul 133 BC) (2,954 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Watson on Wikisource) Livy, Ab Urbe Condita Libri. Origo gentis romanae. Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis (English translation by Harris Rackham, WAregon (120 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
mentioned by Pliny the Elder, Aregon must be placed at the very earliest period of the rise of art in Greece. Strabo, Geographica vii. p.343 Pliny the ElderTriboci (686 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
and Tribocci, Schneider has the form “Triboces” in the accusative plural. Pliny has Tribochi, and Strabo Τριβόκχοι (Tribokchoi). In the passage of CaesarApollodorus (painter) (1,544 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Apollodorus, although he was catalogued by the notable historians Plutarch and Pliny the Elder. It was recorded that Apollodorus was active around 480 BCE; hisRichard Talbert (1,716 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
worldwide at different periods. His translation (with Brian Turner, 2022) Pliny the Elder’s World spans the Natural History’s description of the universeLictor (825 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Nonius Marcellus Obsequens Orosius Ovid Petronius Phaedrus Plautus Pliny the Elder Pliny the Younger Pomponius Mela Priscian Propertius Quadrigarius QuintilianPhilemon Holland (2,881 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
He is known for the first English translations of several works by Livy, Pliny the Elder, and Plutarch, and also for translating William Camden's BritanniaNiccolò Leoniceno (1,311 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
composed the first criticism of the Natural History of Pliny the Elder. Leoniceno's stand against Pliny's work caught the attention of Angelo Poliziano, theHistory of perfume (2,035 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The basic ingredients and methods of making perfumes are described by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia. The world's first recorded chemistNymphaeum (685 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
resemblance to a natural cave. Deliberately rough stones might be used - Pliny the Elder noted that pumice was often used to give the appearance of a caveHolt Manufacturing Company (7,202 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
to the vast agricultural markets of the midwest. Benjamin Holt's nephew, Pliny E. Holt, had been dispatched in March 1909 to Minneapolis, Minnesota, wherePetrocorii (575 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(Πετροκόριοι) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD) and Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), Petrocori by Pliny (1st c. AD), and as Petrogorii by Sidonius Apollinaris (5th c. AD). TheOutline of ancient Rome (3,338 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Horace Julius Caesar Juvenal Livy Lucretius Ovid Petronius Plautus Pliny the Elder Pliny the Younger Propertius Sallust Seneca the Elder Seneca the YoungerLake Como (2,580 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
current location on the lake shore at the behest of Gaius Julius Caesar. Pliny the Younger, in one of his Epistulae, describes the lake and its surroundingOxybii (706 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(Ὀξυβίων) by Polybius (2nd c. BC) and Strabo (early 1st c. AD), and as Oxubi by Pliny (1st c. AD). Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel has proposed to interpret theArtemisia II of Caria (1,669 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
chaste widowhood and of the purest and rarest kind of love". According to Pliny, the plant genus Artemisia was named after Queen Artemisia II of Caria,Saturn (mythology) (4,186 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Plutarch writes his figure is veiled because he is the father of truth. Pliny notes that the cult statue of Saturn was filled with oil; the exact meaning