Pliny

(noun.) Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79).

(noun.) Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62-113).

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• Cato and Varro, Virgil and Columella, Pliny and Palladius delighted to instruct the farmer and praise his occupation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The attractive power of amber is mentioned by Theophrastus and Pliny, and from them by later naturalists. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• It was of the second kind mentioned by Aristotle and Pliny, viz. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• It was more than an ancient observation that came down to Pliny's time for record, that water would rise to a level with its source. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Pliny refers to the curled chips raised by the plane, and Ansonius refers to mills driven by the waters of the Moselle for sawing marble into slabs. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• He was succeeded by Pliny, who also fell a victim to his thirst for knowledge. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• It was Pliny who wrote, at the beginning of the Christian era, that All the usages of civilised life depend in a remarkable degree upon the employment of paper. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The Romans are said to have had nothing but copper money till within five years before the first Punic war (Pliny, lib. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Accounts of Pliny and Ansonius as to Planes and Marble Sawing. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It always and eternally transpires that St. Paul has been to that place, and Pliny has mentioned it. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Pliny thought that each plant had its special virtue, and much of his botan y is applied botany. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Pliny describes this machine which was used early in the first century and which might be termed a stripping header. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The pear, though cultivated in classical times, appears, from Pliny's description, to have been a fruit of very inferior quality. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• When we read in Pliny, therefore, that Seius {Lib. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Savages now sometimes cross their dogs with wild canine animals, to improve the breed, and they formerly did so, as is attested by passages in Pliny. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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