Pliny
historical figure · 7 works · 25 mentions · 27 anchored passages
Plinius · Pliny the Younger · Pliny the Elder · Pliny the Roman writer · Pliny to Trajan · the younger Pliny
spoken of as
1 expressionPliny the Younger4 mentions
Institutes of Roman Law (English) · The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum) (English) · The Lives of the Twelve Caesars (English) · Apologeticum (Latin)
(2) If a child was disinherited without a cause, or received less than one fourth, either as heir or legatee, of what his share would have been by intestate descent (portio legitima), he could by impeaching the will as immoral or unnatural (querela inofficiosi testamenti) have it set aside on the fictitious presumption of the testator’s insanity.
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman naturalist cited on the behavior of animals as illustrating the distinction between attack and defense.
There is a passage in Pliny, which will serve for an explanation of this, he says that the fiercest lions do not fight with each other, nor do serpents bite serpents.
Pliny, speaking of frankincense, observes that as it could not be transported but by the Gebanites, a duty upon it was paid to their king.
We are informed by Pliny, that in ancient Latium, fifty-three nations were destroyed without a single trace of them remaining.
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Roman author cited on nature's distribution of goods among nations.
Nunc factum est ut gens altera alterius suppleret inopiam, divinae iustitiae instituto, ut eo modo (sicut Plinius dicit ) quod genitum esset uspiam, apud omnes natum videretur.
Ab Arabico autem sinu ad Indiam, Indicique Oceani insulas, et auream usque Chersonesum, quam esse Iapanem credunt plerique, etiam re Romana florente navigari solitum, iter a Plinio descriptum, legationes ab Indis ad Augustum, ad Claudium etiam ex Taprobane insula, deinde gesta Traiani et tabulae Ptolemaei satis ostendunt.
Ita commercia victus gratia inventa est Homero Plinius probat.
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman naturalist cited for the Natural History, locating the Columna Maenia.
’ This advertisement was affixed to the Columna Maenia, which was in the forum on the Puteal near the Carcer.
quod a te, petente patrona, peto, Pliny to Trajan, 10, 4.
Every juristic person was originally incapable of being instituted heir, as Pliny mentions in the case of municipalities:
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Roman author cited via his Panegyric on Trajan as evidence of Roman religious custom.
Pliny, in his panegyric on the good Trajan, attests, that the Romans never omitted to begin their discourse and affairs by invoking the Deity.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Author of the Natural History blamed for spreading unreliable legends about Druids.
But the source of at all events a part of the absurdities which have clustered round the subject I take to be the Natural History of Pliny, and they seem to belong to those stories about plants and animals to which may be traced a great deal of the nonsense written in the world.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
Roman author and senator; close friend of Suetonius; wrote letters to and about him and petitioned Emperor Trajan on his behalf
Several of the younger Pliny’s letters are addressed to Suetonius, with whom he lived in the closest friendship.
Apologeticum
Roman provincial governor who investigated Christians and wrote to Trajan for guidance.
For Pliny the Younger, when he was governing his province and had condemned certain Christians and degraded others from their rank, was so disturbed by their very numbers that he consulted the emperor Trajan as to what he should do thereafter, alleging that, apart from their obstinacy in not sacrificing, he had discovered nothing else about their rites than that they held meetings before dawn to s …