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Pliny, Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus | Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79) | |
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Pliny, Pliny the Younger, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus | Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62-113) |