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pliny
/'plɪni/
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  1. 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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    gaius plinius caecilius secundus pliny the younger
  2. noun
    Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79)

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    gaius plinius secundus pliny the elder
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  • vesuvius a volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast; a Plinian eruption in 79 AD buried Pompeii and killed Pliny the Elder; last erupted in 1944
  • pliny Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62-113)
  • mt. vesuvius a volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast; a Plinian eruption in 79 AD buried Pompeii and killed Pliny the Elder; last erupted in 1944
  • pliny the younger Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62-113)
  • 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)
  • mount vesuvius a volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast; a Plinian eruption in 79 AD buried Pompeii and killed Pliny the Elder; last erupted in 1944
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