- Gaius Plinius Secundus, better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian
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Pliny the Elder facts
- Spending most of his spare time studying, writing or investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field, he wrote an encyclopedic work, Naturalis Historia (Natural History), which became a model for all other encyclopedias
- Pliny the Younger, his nephew, wrote of him in a letter to the historian Tacitus:nnFor my part I deem those blessed to whom, by favour of the gods, it has been granted either to do what is worth writing of, or to write what is worth reading; above measure blessed those on whom both gifts have been conferred
- In the latter number will be my uncle, by virtue of his own and of your compositions
- Pliny is referring to the fact that Tacitus relied on his uncle's now missing work on the History of the German Wars
- Pliny the Elder died on August 25, AD 79, while attempting the rescue by ship of a friend and his family from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Stabiae that had just destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum
- The prevailing wind caused by the sixth and largest pyroclastic surge of the eruption would not allow his ship to leave the shore and Pliny probably died during this event
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