English
wikipedia|Pliny the Elder
wikipedia|Pliny the Younger
Pronunciation
IPA|/�plɪni/
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin Plinius#Latin|Plinius.
Proper noun
Pliny (plural Plinys or Plinies)

1. An ancient Roman praenomen.

#*Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (23�79 AD): an ancient Roman nobleman, scientist and historian, author of Naturalis Historia, "Pliny's Natural History".
#*Pliny the Younger, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (63�ca. 113): an ancient Roman statesman, orator, and writer, a great-nephew of Pliny the Elder.
Quotations
1828, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 24 no. 147
:The two Plinys, Lucan, (though again under the disadvantage of verse) Petronius Arbiter, and Quintilian, but above all, the Senecas, (for a Spanish cross appears to improve the quality of the rhetorician) have left a body of rhetorical composition such as no modern nation has rivalled.
1836, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Reminiscences of a Literary Life
:Of Q. Curtius, the Demosthenes (both), Eutropius, Horace (first with a date), Homer, Justin, Livy, the two Plinies, Quintilian, Martial, Tacitus, and Virgil, the <span class="font-variant: small-caps;">first editions</span>; but my friend must not be allowed to have a succession of nights of undisturbed repose till he possesses the first Horace, and the first Roman edition of Virgil.
Derived terms
Plinian
Plinyism
Translations

Bulgarian: �линий#Bulgarian|�линий (Plinij)
Catalan: Plini#Catalan|Plini
Croatian: Plinije#Croatian|Plinije
Czech: Plinius#Czech|Plinius
Dutch: Plinius#Dutch|Plinius
Esperanto: Plinio#Esperanto|Plinio
Finnish: Plinius#Finnish|Plinius
French: Pline#French|Pline
Galician: Plinio#Galician|Plinio
German: Plinius#German|Plinius
Latin: Plinius#Latin|Plinius
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Norwegian: Plinius#Norwegian|Plinius
Polish: Pliniusz#Polish|Pliniusz
Portuguese: Plínio#Portuguese|Plínio
Romanian: Plinius#Romanian|Plinius
Russian: �линий#Russian|�линий (Plinij)
Slovak: Plínius#Slovak|Plínius
Slovenian: Plinij#Slovenian|Plinij
Serbian:
*Cyrillic: �лини�е
*Latin: Plinije#Serbian|Plinije
Spanish: Plinio#Spanish|Plinio
Swedish: Plinius#Swedish|Plinius
Ukrainian: �л�н�й#Ukrainian|�л�н�й

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