Associations to the word «Pliny»

Wiktionary

PLINY, proper noun. An ancient Roman praenomen.

Dictionary definition

PLINY, noun. Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62-113).
PLINY, noun. Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79).

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca