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Pliny, the Elder

LC control no.n 79042075
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPA6611 PA6637
Personal name headingPliny, the Elder
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Variant(s)Cayo Plinio Segundo
Gaĭ Pliniĭ Sekund Starshiĭ
Gaius Plinius Secundus
Pliniĭ
Pliniĭ Starshiĭ, Gaĭ Sekund
Plinio, el Viejo
Plinio, il Vecchio
Plinio Segundo, Cayo
Plinius Secundus, C.
Plinius Secundus, C. (Gaius)
Plinius Secundus d. Ä
Plinius Secundus der Ältere
Plynius Secundus, C.
Secundus, C. Plinius (Gaius Plinius)
Secundus, Caius Plinius
Secundus, Gaius Plinius
Segundo, Cayo Plinio
Pline, l'Ancien
Associated placeRome
Birth date[0023,0024]
Death date00790824
Place of birthComo (Italy)
Place of deathStabiae (Extinct city)
Profession or occupationHistorians Orators Procurators (Rome) Encyclopedists
Found inWoodruff, U. Inventorum natura, 1979: page 126 (Gaius Plinius Secundus)
Historia natural de Cayo Plinio Segundo, 1976: volume 2, part 2, page 5 (Plinio el Viejo)
Plinio il Vecchio, 1983.
The historie of the world, 1601: title page (C. Plinius Secundus)
Über Glas und Metalle, 2000: title page (Plinius Secundus d.Ä.)
Cornucopiae linguae Latinae, 1494: folio CCCIv (...C. Plynii Secundi)
Brill's New Pauly online, viewed 6 December 2013 (Plinius Secundus, C.; Pliny the Elder; born AD 23/4 in Novum Comum (Gallia Transpadana, modern Como); died 24 August 79 at age 56 in a villa near Stabiae during rescue operations at the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius; Roman historian and orator; procurator in the provinces, active as an encyclopedist)
Histoire naturelle. Livre IV, 2015: title page (Pline l'Ancien)
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