1. The Conservatives, led by James Pliny Whitney, were more progressive.

2. Pliny, who preserved the story, notes that their comradeship flourished for some years.

3. In other accounts, Pliny the Elder wrote that Persian women massaged their faces with yogurt to prevent wrinkles.

4. Pliny also asserted that the mathematician and astronomer Anaxagoras of Clazomenae had predicted the Aegospotami meteorite fall.

5. Pliny recommended it as an antidote to poison.

6. Home is where the heart is. - ---- Pliny.

7. Pliny was a Roman who lived in the first century and wrote something called the Natural History.

8. Pliny the Younger (Epistles 10.96), writing to Emperor Trajan, says that the early Christians sang a hymn to Christ as God.

9. My uncle , Pliny the elder , looked more asleep than dead.

10. These included early writings of Pliny, Philo and Josephus among others allowing comparisons of texts as well as historical contexts.

11. This is the same idea already described by Pliny the Elder - and still used 1700 years after his death.

12. Roman consul and writer, the nephew of Pliny the Elder. His letters provide valuable information about Roman life.

13. First mentioned by Pliny the Elder, Chioggia developed as a fishing and lacemaking town and is today connected by a causeway to the Italian mainland.

14. Back in the first century, AD, Pliny the Elder, a great Roman scholar, collected descriptions of creatures who lived at the very edge of the known world.

15. A mixture of Socrates, Pericles, Mahomet, Pliny the Younger and Augustin Thierry.

16. In recording the horror of the event, Pliny the Younger, a Roman author, left behind this record that still benefits historians and scientists today.

17. D. , Pliny the Elder wrote of using sea urchin ashes to treat baldness.

18. We don't know if Pliny or Pompey or some later person was skeptical of this as effective protection against poison.

19. The odor of wild thyme, Pliny tells us, drives away snakes. Dionysius of Syracuse, on the other hand, thinks it an aphrodisiac.

20. Pliny called it "the largest in the whole of history, " a "remarkable and truly unique work of nature" worth 10 million sesterces.

21. Pliny the Elder (AD 23-79), one of the great historians of the Roman Empire, described the mad rush of spectators into arenas to drink the blood of fallen gladiators.

22. It is likely that a good many valuable stones were destroyed in this way because Pliny was muddling up hardness and toughness.

23. On the reverse in the artist's left-handed script is a three-word inscription from the Roman poet Pliny.

24. Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fable steers us back to Latin in explaining that Pliny thought hyenas had a kind of stone in their eye, that if you put under your tongue gave the gift of prophecy.

25. True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read. - Pliny the Elder.

26. Since the question does not arise, I prefer not to answer it. All the same, I should very much have liked to be Pliny the Younger.

27. A city of ancient Latium southeast of modern-day Rome, Italy. Pliny the Younger, Cicero, and the emperors Nero and Titus were among the prominent Romans who built villas here.

28. In 2001 the Random House Word Maven expressed the opinion that this "skeptical" meaning likely had developed independent of whether Pliny was doubtful.

28. try its best to collect and build good sentences.

29. It was clear from the accounts of the historian Pliny(23-79 A. D. ) that the Romans also possessed burning-glasses.

30. In two letters to the historian Tacitus, the nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote the only eyewitness account of the great eruption of Vesuvius.

31. Most of what is known of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius on August 24, 79 AD comes from the writings of Pliny the Younger.

32. In these years, one of the military tribunes of the IIIth is Pliny the Younger.

33. The Oxford English Dictionary refers to two guys— Pliny and Nicander—in its etymology for the word magnet.

34. The tragedy had left a deep impression on Pliny who had lost an uncle in the event.

35. Long before, the Roman historian Pliny had speculated that there was another patch of land, to balance those already known.

36. The story comes from Pliny the Elder almost 2, 000 years ago.

37. In the first century A.D., Pliny the Elder wrote of using sea urchin ashes to treat baldness.

38. All the same , I should very much have liked to be Pliny the Younger.