Pliny the Elder Bibliography

Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 – 79), called Pliny the Elder was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia (Natural History), which became an editorial model for encyclopedias. He spent most of his spare time studying, writing, and investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field.

Pliny the Elder died in AD 79 in Stabiae while attempting the rescue of a friend and his family by ship from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which had already destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The wind caused by the sixth and largest pyroclastic surge of the volcano's eruption did not allow his ship to leave port, and Pliny died during that event.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• John Bostock and H. T. Riley (1855) at Perseus; the other, of a sizable portion, by Philemon Holland (1601). https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plin.+Nat.+toc

• James Eason site https://penelope.uchicago.edu/holland/index.html.  Book XII (Foreign plants, especially spices.), Book XIII (More foreign plants: trees, papyrus and other aquatic plants. Another tirade on luxury, masquerading as a description of fancy tables.), Book XIV (Plants of Italy: The vine.), Book XV (Fruit-bearing Trees: Olives, apples, pears, nuts and so on.)
  

• Livius three page biography https://www.livius.org/articles/person/pliny-the-elder

Quotes: 

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

Home is where the heart is.

The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

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