Pliny the Elder
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| Pliny the Elder Gaius Plinius Secundus | |
|---|---|
 Statue o Pliny the Elder on the facade o Cathedral of S. Maria Maggiore in Como | |
| Born |
AD 23 Novum Comum (Como), Roman Italy, Roman Empire |
| Died |
August 25, AD 79 (aged 55–56) Stabiae, Campania, Roman Empire |
| Residence | Rome, provincial locations, Misenum |
| Citizenship | Roman |
| Eddication | Rhetoric, grammar |
| Thrift | Lawer, author, naitural filosofer, naituralist, militar commander, provincial govrenor |
| Notable wirk(s) | Naturalis Historia |
| Childer | Pliny the Younger (neffae, later adoptit son) |
| Parents | Celer an Marcella |
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23 – August 25, AD 79), better kent as Pliny the Elder, wis a Roman author, naituralist, an naitural filosopher, as well as naval an army commander o the early Roman Empire, an personal friend o the emperor Vespasian.
Categeries:
- 1st-century Romans
- 23 births
- 79 daiths
- Auncient Roman admirals
- Auncient Roman antiquarians
- Auncient Roman sodgers
- Clessical geografie
- Clessical Laitin leeteratur
- Daiths in volcanic eruptions
- Roman-era filosofers
- Fowk frae Como
- Filosofers o Roman Italy
- Pre-Linnaean botanists
- Siller Age Laitin writers
- Roman-era geografers
