Roman military commander and writer (AD23/24–79)
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He died trying to sail toward an erupting volcano. The Roman admiral-turned-encyclopedist spent his life cataloging everything — plants, stones, animals, the mechanics of the known world — and when Vesuvius blew in 79 AD, curiosity pulled him straight into the ash.
Gaius Plinius Secundus was a Roman naval commander, procurator, and friend of the emperor Vespasian who turned every spare hour into research. He wrote seven works spanning 102 volumes, most now lost: a twenty-volume account of the Germanic wars that Tacitus and Plutarch both mined, and a thirty-one-volume history extending earlier chronicles to his own time. What survived was Naturalis Historia, thirty-seven volumes covering the breadth of human knowledge and the natural world, an editorial template for every encyclopedia that followed. On 25 August 79, Vesuvius erupted across the bay from Na…
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From the days of Father Bacchus to Alexander the Great, their kings are reckoned at 154, whose reigns extend over 6451 years and 3 months.
It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
Everything is soothed by oil, and this is the reason why divers send out small quantities of it from their mouths, because it smooths every part which is rough.
It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to man a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.
Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she [Nature] abandon to cries and lamentations.
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