- Pliny, Pliny the Younger, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus - Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62-113)
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- Pliny, Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus - Roman author of an encylclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79)
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