Absentes tinnitu aurium præsentire sermones de se receptum … - Pliny the Elder

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Absentes tinnitu aurium præsentire sermones de se receptum est.

Pliny the Elder

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Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 – 79), called Pliny the Elder was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia (Natural History), which became an editorial model for encyclopedias.

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Native Name: Caius Plinius Secundus

Alternative Names: Gaius Plinius Secundus • Gaius P. Secundus • Caius P. Secundus • C. Plinius Secundus • Plinius • Pliny • the Elder Pliny

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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have actually been effected?

It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.

Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she [Nature] abandon to cries and lamentations.

Absentes tinnitu aurium præsentire sermones de se receptum est. - Pliny the Elder

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