Examples of using Pliny in English and their translations into French
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the expanses of straws of Pliny, the Aleppo pine
Nothing is known about Sedigitus beyond that Pliny, who calls him an illustris poeta,
The first coralline algae to be recognized as living organisms were probably Corallina, by Pliny the Elder in the 1st century AD Irvine and Chamberlain, 1994 pp. 11.
Pliny mentions the exploitation of lapis specularis,
used by Pliny for a wild plant
called‘wild' by Pliny,‘marauders and robbers' by Livy and‘unshaven
In his Epistles, Pliny the Younger describes the scene as he pleaded for a senatorial lady whose 80-year-old father had disinherited her ten days after taking a new wife.
Ernst Meyer considered it equal to the herbals of Pliny and Dioscorides, while George Sarton thought it an improvement on"De Materia Medica.
mentioned by Pliny and Strabo.
Harmozica of Strabo, Pliny, Ptolemy and Dio Cassius.
who is mentioned by Pliny as having gained by his practice the annual income of two hundred and fifty thousand sesterces.
necessitated a revision of the literary tradition established by Tacitus and Pliny.
Pliny found this simple statement of the facts inadequate
It is unsure whether M. Licinius Crassus Frugi had been sent to Mauretania before, but Pliny relates that the Roman Generals Gaius Suetonius Paulinus
During the first century CE, Pliny the Elder, a Roman historian,
In Ethiopia, according to Pliny, and in Libya according to Saint Jerome,
According to Pliny, the method of making it had been lost for a long time,
Pliny observed that while hermaphrodites were once considered portents(prodigia), in his day
In his times, Pliny complained of the declining state of Roman portrait art,"The painting of portraits which used to transmit through the ages the accurate likenesses of people,
while with regards to the other two, Pliny the Younger and Tacitus, Couchoud considers the Christ mention in the Tacitus passage genuine.