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

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin