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PLINY, the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23-79), a Roman of equestrian rank of Transpadane Gaul (N. Italy), was uncle of Pliny the letter writer. He pursued a career partly military in Germany, partly administrative in Gaul and Spain under the emperor Vespasian, and became prefect of the fleet at Misenum.
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Cool, grave, earnest and epic.
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Pliny the Elder
- First published
- 1938
- Pages
- 560
- Publisher
- Folio Society, Cambridge University Press, Loeb Classical Library
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English, lat
- ISBN
- 9780521219785
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