Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Pliny.
Contemporary and employer of Suetonius and friend of Tacitus, Plinius was a highly skilled rhetorician well known for letters rightly dubbed literary classics.
2011, Hank Hanegraaff, “External Evidence”, in Has God Spoken? Memorable Proofs of the Bible’s Divine Inspiration, Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 432 more examples
Plinius wrote about spells and witches in a superstitious manner. […] But the sort of spell which Plinius talks of, smacking of superstition, is false, contrived and quite impossible in true believers.
1982 [1981], Tekla Dömötör, quoting Péter Melius Juhász, translated by Christopher M. Hann, “Folk Beliefs at the Time of the Reformation”, in Hungarian Folk Beliefs, Bloomington, Ind.: w; Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 56“Welcome, sire!” Vespasian saluted, and after the briefest hesitation Plinius followed his legate’s example, swallowing his distaste for such deference to a mere native, albeit a king of his people.
2002, Simon Scarrow, chapter 6, in When the Eagle Hunts (Eagles of the Empire; 3), London: Headline, →ISBN, pages 43–44
Origin
- LatinPlīnius
- Middle EnglishPlinius
- EnglishPlinius
From Middle English Plinius, from Latin Plīnius.
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