Pliny the Younger

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Noun1.Pliny the Younger - Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the ElderPliny the Younger - Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62-113)
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During the reign of this emperor, we have the remarkable letter of Pliny the Younger to Trajan consulting with the emperor on the proper legal proceedings for dealing with the Christians.
Gabala was located in the middle of the 2500-year-old Silk Road, and was mentioned by Pliny the Younger. In the 19th century, the Azerbaijani historian Abbasgulu Agha Bakikhanov mentioned in his "Gulistani Irem" book that "Kbala" or "Khabala" were in fact Gabala.
The "Letters of Pliny the Younger," Balzac's "Lost Illusions," and "The Poems" of John Donne.
Finally, the exedra with the rectangular open space and the hemicycle is thought to echo garden features in the Tuscan villa of Pliny the Younger (61 AD-113 AD) in ancient Rome or in modern Italian gardens such as the Villa Mattei and the Villa Pamphili.
Pliny the Younger hoped to improve relations with his unpleasant wife and her mother by investing in a warehouse on the Tiber with them.
It is known that Martial was on friendly terms with the elder Pliny's nephew, Pliny the Younger (C.
In sections on miracles, workings of miracles, and believing in miracles, they consider such topics as medicine and the paradox in the Hippocratic corpus and beyond, miracles and pseudo-miracles in Byzantine apocalypses, telling tales of wonder: mirabilia in the Letters of Pliny the Younger, Apuleius on raising the dead crossing the boundaries of life and death while convincing the audience, and recognizing miracles in ancient Greek novels.
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Chapters 6 and 7 compare the views of Pliny the Younger and Paul regarding positional status, yielding the new insight that such status may be granted as a gift: for Pliny, from highly placed patrons, including an emperor; for Paul, from the "god of Israel." Paul describes his status in Pliny's world as "like the world's dirty dishwater, everyone's soap scum" (1 Cor.
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