| SYNO | Gaius Plinius Secundus | Pliny | Pliny the Elder |
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- In another example, believing the black rock of the Schloßberg at Stolpen to be the same as Pliny the Elder's basalt, Agricola applied this name to it, and thus originated a petrological term.
- The Great Pyramid's pyramidion was already lost in antiquity, as Pliny the Elder and later authors report a platform on its summit.
- By the 1st century AD, Pliny the Elder was in a position to claim that everyone agreed on the spherical shape of Earth, though disputes continued regarding the nature of the antipodes, and how it is possible to keep the ocean in a curved shape.
- What little is known of the Frisii is provided by a few Roman accounts, most of them military. Pliny the Elder said their lands were forest-covered with tall trees growing up to the edge of the lakes.
- The Greeks, including Aristotle, Vitruvius, and Pliny the Elder, were interested in the cause and mitigation of friction.
- The Greek philosopher Democritus (460–371 BCE) blamed water in general for earthquakes. Pliny the Elder called earthquakes "underground thunderstorms".
- The first reference to the sect is by the Roman writer Pliny the Elder (died 79 CE) in his "Natural History".
- The earliest encyclopedic work to have survived to modern times is the "Naturalis Historia" of Pliny the Elder, a Roman statesman living in the 1st century AD.
- Reports of cooperative human-dolphin fishing date back to the ancient Roman author and natural philosopher Pliny the Elder.
- Regardless of the extent of their political power, the freedmen did manage to amass wealth through their positions. Pliny the Elder notes that several of them were richer than Crassus, the richest man of the Republican era.
- In the 1st century, Pliny the Elder believed that comets were connected with political unrest and death.
- The earliest bestiary in the form in which it was later popularized was an anonymous 2nd-century Greek volume called the "Physiologus", which itself summarized ancient knowledge and wisdom about animals in the writings of classical authors such as Aristotle's "Historia Animalium" and various works by Herodotus, Pliny the Elder, Solinus, Aelian and other naturalists.
- The Roman scholar Pliny the Elder described several ways of preparing antimony sulfide for medical purposes in his treatise "Natural History", around 77 AD.
- The Roman geographer Pliny the Elder (c. 77 AD), classifies the Bastarnae and Peucini as being one of the five main subdivisions of Germanic peoples, the other subdivisions as the three West Germanic groups, the "Inguaeones", "Istuaeones" and "Hermiones", and the East Germanic "Vandili".
- The historians Herodotus, Pliny the Elder, and Strabo record the use of boats for commerce, travel, and military purposes.
- Burning glass technology has been known since antiquity, as described by Greek and Roman writers who recorded the use of lenses to start fires for various purposes. Pliny the Elder noted the use of glass vases filled with water to create a heat intense enough to ignite clothing, as well as convex lenses that were used to cauterize wounds.
- The etymology of "Byzantium" is unknown. It has been suggested that the name is of Thracian origin. is mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his "Natural History".
- According to ancient sources including Pliny the Elder and Aristotle, in 467 BC a large meteorite landed near Aegospotami.
- The Camuni were an ancient people of uncertain origin (according to Pliny the Elder, they were Euganei; according to Strabo, they were Rhaetians) who lived in Val Camonica—in what is now northern Lombardy—during the Iron Age, although human groups of hunters, shepherds and farmers are known to have lived in the area since the Neolithic.
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