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Pliny the Elder (6,213 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 – AD 79), called Pliny the Elder (/ˈplɪni/), was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander

Pliny 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 raise

Natural 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 to

Phoenix (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 are

Mount 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 since

Eruption 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 Pliny

James 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 Conservative

Epistulae (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 letters

Tacitus (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 letters

Hilleviones (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 believed

Trajan (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 borders

Doric 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 latere

Telandrus (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 the

Cultural 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 lizard

Plinian 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 marked

Basilisk (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 than

Laocoön 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 sculptors

Daedala (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 of

Attea (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 the

Crya (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, by

Artaiouteichos (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 with

Pteleum (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 towns

Suetonius (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 property

Bubon (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 Bubon

Clitumnus (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, where

Alum (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 useful

Sosigenes (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 while

Bisanthe (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 as

Cucumber (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 XX

Atarneus (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. Pausanias

Manticore (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 Solinus

Pliny 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 Pliny

Ancient 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 in

Magic 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 Mediterranean

Claudiopolis (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 in

Silius 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 occasion

Apelles (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 is

List 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) Ptolemy

Netherlands 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 Batavians

Mount 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 Mount

Side (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 synoecism

Vergunni (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 obscure

Pliny 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 of

Ucennii (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, sennos

Griffin (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 griffins

Dardanus (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 other

Khasas (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 reported

Sogionti (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 meaning

Clariae (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 Aedi

Nemaloni (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 valley

Aedi (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 Clariae

Tirida (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. Richard

Fannia (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 grandmother

Hydas (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. Richard

Venetia 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 subdivision

Pliny 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 counsel

Essenes (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 that

Druid (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 suppressed

Caturiges (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). The

Gutones (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 reported

Vertamocorii (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 founders

Scaugdae (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 Aedi

Cremaste (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 Cremaste

Chryse (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. Vol

Axis (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 Species

Triulatti (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)oi

Canae (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-century

Nemeturii (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 *Nemeturioi

Citron (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 Natural

Oliver 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 discontinued

Lysimachia (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. Naturalis

Cius (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 of

Menapii (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 accusative

Vesubiani (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 Barruol

Helveconae (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 one

Gallitae (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 based

Cressa (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). According

Placia (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 Province

Taurisci (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 etymology

Mount 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 Mount

Cenomani (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 territory

Ambisontes (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). The

Kinaros (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 the

Argiza (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 conventus

Catenates (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-, meaning

Eguiturii (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. The

Papyrus 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, 9,15

Vennones (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). The

Calucones (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 (358

Avatici (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 near

Zoroaster (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 Hercules

Titus 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 72

South 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 by

Neapolis (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 a

Anatilii (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 situated

Seduni (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. According

Nicomedia (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 several

Roman 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 estate

Coele-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 to

Gallia 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 general

Smilax (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 Crocus

Hermocapelia (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 minted

Velaunii (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 ethnonym

Dando 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 Etymological

Acitavones (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 of

Pactya (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 Lysimachia

Brigianii (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 inscriptions

Table 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 author

Scandinavia (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 references

Rhaetian 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 as

Anemoi (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 southeast

Cocylium (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 disappeared

Mandane (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, namely

Epidaurum (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 while

Nymphaeum (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) and

Scylace (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 located

Teutons (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 Ingaevones

Lillium (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 east

Adanates (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 name

Appia (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 of

Carambis (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 promontory

Zoroaster (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 Hercules

Como (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, and

Tyrodiza (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 tribute

Carussa (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 tribute

Las 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 mining

Adunicates (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 is

Mount 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 limits

A 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 were

Brixentes (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 identification

Conium (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. Under

Tyragetae (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, and

Crithote (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 were

Thebasa (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 survived

Temple 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 grapewood

Ceto (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 a

Licates (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 ethnic

Chauci (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 groups

Pillars 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 (Book

Caryanda (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 passage

Bagienni (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 what

Ceto (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 a

Cosmetics 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, Natural

Albucius (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 very

Pliny, 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 is

Laurus 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 to

Alexandria 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 Byzantium

Philoxenus 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 a

Istvaeones (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 that

Celegeri (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-westernmost

Calpe (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 the

Genauni (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 coins

Sidussa (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 probable

Salassi (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 Salassoí

Maionia 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 from

Medulli (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). The

Methe (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 (trans

Temple 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 6th

Domus 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 statue

Colossus 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 least

Zygii (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) in

Comani (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 compared

Leontion (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, Nat

Styx (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, Anabasis

Quariates (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 etymology

Heliotrope (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 as

Sextius 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 period

Ecdinii (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 ethnonym

Ingauni (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 Bernardo

Elaphiti 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 Islands

Bodiocasses (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), Baiocassi

Ruspina (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) or

Upper 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 Mountains

Technological 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 grew

Vindelici (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 Vindelicorum

Mausoleum 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 death

Corolla (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 1200

Choma (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 the

Suetrii (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) by

Chalcedony (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 jaspis

Arulenus 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 Arulenus

Municipium (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 Battista

Gaetuli (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 province

Pordoselene (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 Proselene

Loryma (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 the

Siren (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 father

Vallikkunnu (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 at

Dios 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 Ephesus

Eumeneia (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 entirely

Homana (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 part

Gaetuli (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 province

Mastaura (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 capital

Gagae (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) mention

Corydala (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 with

Tyrian 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 called

Artace (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 Byzantium

Chaplet (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 explains

Medicina 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 that

Dindari (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, accounting

Prusa (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 with

Saint 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 translation

Armorica (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 the

Frisii (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 of

Amber (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 reason

Islands 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. Antoninus

Getae (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 former

Halizones (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 placed

Orobii (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 etymology

Anomoepus (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 Anomoepus

Hanno 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 ignorant

List 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 sestertii

Veragri (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 as

Larissa 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 in

Ariana (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 Aria

Roman 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 metals

Cinnamon (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 on

Agriculture 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 Historia

Pitane (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 noticed

Sauromates 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 sent

Peiraikos (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 Book

Dionysiopolis (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 ancient

Assos (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 Apollonia

Loeb 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. Dialogue

Terina (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 in

Levitha (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 addition

Timeline 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 art

Noreia (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 verified

Mago (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. Pliny

Pompeii (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 Elder

Gangaridai (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 Sinarus

Avantici (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 Gaulish

Muziris (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 emporium

Endymion (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's

Percote (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 Periplus

Polykleitos (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 particularly

Ancient 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 technical

Roman 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 their

Troglodytae (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 117

Assos (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 Apollonia

Carne, 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 Phoenicia

Bodiontici (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), Bodionio

Euryalus (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 Parthenius

Salmydessus (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 known

Antidotus (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 Cyaneae

National 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 derives

Seleucia 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 of

Fortune-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 soothsayers

Noumenios (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 referring

Praxiteles (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 his

Ancient 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 underground

Gaziura (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 Talbert

Cimon 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 looking

Mnasitheus 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 name

Dionysodorus (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 circumference

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), pesticide

Polyaigos (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 kilometres

Seskli (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 findings

Bituriges 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) by

Anaxilaus (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 him

Bybassus (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 Acanthus

Pliny 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 1998

Vangiones (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 Varro

Achaei (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 name

AD 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 human

Cercetae (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 Caucasus

Tyriaeum (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 Combusta

Italian 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 Varro

North 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 included

Medma (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 trace

Frisiavones (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 appears

Spali (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 "Timaeus

Cadurci (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-Yves

Dava (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. Many

Aristarete (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 Aristarete

Serraepolis (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 annexed

100s (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 Pontus

Albiones (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 name

Marion, 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 inhabited

Encyclopedism (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 advice

Leucae (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 Scylax

Apamea (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 covered

Texandri (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 Texandri

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 "Timaeus

Alerion (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 German

Coriosolites (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 uncertain

Cahto 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 August

Perea (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), pesticide

Heliades (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.; Jones

History 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 beams

Mnasitheus 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 name

Transjordan (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-Syria

Yale (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 as

San 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. Hammonton

Ligures (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 Varus

Seskli (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 findings

Vulcan (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 familiaris

Kalinga (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. Unfortunately

Damocrates (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, the

Numen (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 "dignity

Chilon 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 moved

Obzor (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 known

Cercetae (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 Caucasus

Res 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 the

Dexivates (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 stem

Epiphania (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 Roman

List 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 original

Erythraean 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 History

Volcanology (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 de

Constantia (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 Great

Parappanad (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 at

Mithridates 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 of

Scandza (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 of

Alauda (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 Alauda

Iaia (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 to

Historia 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 of

Aegle (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 encyclopedia

Vermio 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 Herodotus

Vulca (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 that

Vediantii (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 interpreted

Azurite (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 blue

Nicomachus 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 a

Caecilia 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 the

Persecution 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 executed

Art 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 of

Abrincatui (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 as

Vulca (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 that

White 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 Orosius

Aegospotami (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 Aegospotami

List 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 original

Caecilia 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 the

Tally 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 Marco

Salammoniac (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 Roman

Azurite (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 blue

Canary 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 the

Julia 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, Historiae

Venostes (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 and

Silvanectes (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 as

Roman 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 lavishly

Livy (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 from

Cocosates (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 derived

Fascinus (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 "looking

Aristophon (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 places

Francisco 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 youngest

Zgërdhesh (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 the

Canal 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 possibility

Mount 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 would

Ceutrones (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 hamlet

Paltus (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 the

Poems 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-serious

Ligauni (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 Ages

Meges 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 by

Mergus (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 English

Meninx (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 archaeologists

Acherusia (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 Diodorus

Jacob 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. Retrieved

Limonium (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 leimon

Segovellauni (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 *Segouellaunoi

Charax 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 innermost

Kozhikode 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 at

Apollonia (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 modern

Simoeis (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 tributary

Tacitus 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 to

Vellavii (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 c

Cantabrian 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 Cantabria

Arthyde, 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 16

Caligula'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's

Karamenderes 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, and

Shabwa (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 city

Roman 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, 7.57

Kadalundi (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 at

Achilles (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): "Researches

Sinuessa (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 town

Onyx (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. Treatments

Earth'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—reported

Manius 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." Dentatus

Morini (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 Pomponius

Cavari (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), Kaúaroi

Cabira (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 city

Antiquitates 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.), Nonius

Pellendones (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, Historia

Apollonos 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 generally

Adriatic 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 that

Ficus 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 augur

Fontes 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 been

Augury (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 Thebes

Great 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 Pyramid

Apollonia (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 modern

70s (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 including

Classical 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. Also

Macrobians (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 is

Kadalundi (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 at

Turduli (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 Mela

Çoruh (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 called

Aristolaos (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 father

Sardiatae (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 reports

Asturcón (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 similarity

Phoristae (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 Cimmeri

Catoblepas (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 Catoblepas

Temnos (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's

Celtici (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 Asia

Nashan (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 neighboring

Pliny 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 languages

Arachne (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). However

Myron (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 was

Yizhar 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 on

Spondolici (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 Harris

Papyrus (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 that

Vicarius (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 Quintilian

Sangarius 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 would

Grass 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 (Naturalis

Buddhism 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 court

Supsa (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 the

Hellenistic-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 History

Tricasses (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 Gaulish

Eclipse 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 during

Eburovices (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 Ptolemy

Cornelius 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", Naturalis

Vocontii (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, figs

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 Ptolemy

Aurelian 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 areas

Atriplex (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 fact

Viducasses (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 (Book

Hellenistic-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 History

Bdellium (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 are

Papyrus (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 that

Pliny 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, 1876

Rimphaces (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 Cimmeri

Athenodorus 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 in

Alazani (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 by

Papirius 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 nature

History 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 explained

Aequi (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 the

Haunted 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 for

Roman 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 Quintilian

Euphranor (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 Theseus

Nelcynda (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 Erythraean

Neapolis (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 also

Buddhism 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 court

Trebula 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 distinguish

Tiberius (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 on

The 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 also

Martial (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 having

Regio 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 on

Anise (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 alexanders

Aristoclides (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 country

Bylliones (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" tribes

Columella (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 almost

Natural 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, which

Turmodigi (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 names

Anthus (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 referring

Agape 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 Christians

Sanni (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 settling

Hispania 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 Diocletian

Allifae (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 That

Science 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 substantial

Cloacina (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 in

Lucius 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 member

Herculaneum (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 first

Nero'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 of

Harpasa (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 could

Mediomatrici (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 Mediomátrikes

Aulerci 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; his

Cryptoporticus (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-excavated

Suebi (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 claimed

Nero (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 Natural

Amasra (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 letter

Aganippe (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, 9

Nitiobroges (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 Nisiobroges

Medical 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 an

Interpretatio 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 names

1883 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: Sexton

Bylliones (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" tribes

Mediomatrici (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 Mediomátrikes

Grape 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 concentrate

Fortune 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 when

Martial (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 having

Chalcedon (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 derived

Thomas 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 Ralph

Cape 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 to

Nero'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 of

Crinas 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 Thessalus

Shrine 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 was

Taurini (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 Ptolemy

Harpasa (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 could

Città 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, mosaic

Iacetani (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 disputable

Agesander 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 these

Quintilian (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 consul

Nerium (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 the

Serica (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 xx

Umbri (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 people

Tauri (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 the

Tindari (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 colony

Himilco (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, who

Gabali (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 ethnonym

Regio 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 on

Histories (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 the

Alimia (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 of

Lucius 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, W

Aregon (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 Elder

Triboci (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 Caesar

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; his

Richard 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 universe

Lictor (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 Quintilian

Philemon 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 Britannia

Niccolò 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, the

History 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 chemist

Nymphaeum (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 cave

Holt 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, where

Petrocorii (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). The

Outline 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 Younger

Lake 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 surrounding

Oxybii (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 the

Artemisia 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