Pliny

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  1. An ancient Roman praenomen.
    — 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.
  2. 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".
    — I will leave off all my childish fooleries and diversions, and set about studying with such a rage, that when you come back next year, you may find the tongue I have now in my mouth more forky than that of some serpents mentioned by Pliny the naturalist.
  3. An ancient Roman praenomen.; Pliny the Younger, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (63–c. 113): an ancient Roman statesman, orator, and writer, a great-nephew of Pliny the Elder.

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Plinys plural Plinies plural Plinius alternative

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plinian Plinydom Plinyism

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Ultimately from Latin Plīnius, an Italic name of obscure origin.
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