About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: Pliny the Elder, Vitruvius, Horace, Flavius Aetius, Ammianus Marcellinus, Vincent of Lerins, Horatius Cocles, Sallust, Gaius Mucius Scaevola, Lucius Artorius Castus, Aureolus, Titus Labienus, Lucius Seius Strabo, Tonantius Ferreolus, Gaius Volusenus, Marcus Terentius Varro, Centurion, Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus, Marcus Velleius Paterculus, Tiberius Iulius Abdes Pantera, Cornelius the Centurion, Publius Attius Varus, Spurius Ligustinus, Titus Pullo, Optio, Cassius Chaerea, Aulus Pudens, Evocatus, Mamurra, Martialis, Tiberius Claudius Maximus, Legionary, Theodora and Didymus, Lucius Vorenus, Lucius Roscius Fabatus, Sempronius Asellio, Gaius Crastinus, Quintus Fabius Pictor, Aelius Catus, Primus pilus, Marcus Calpurnius Flamma, Lucius Septimius, Flavius Gaudentius, Terrasidius, Marcus Caelius, Titus Flavius Petro, Gaius Julius Severus, Phazas, (Gaius) Julius Quadratus, Dulcitius, Herius Asinius, Ranisstorum, Obsidius, Quintus Petilius Secundus, Claudius Terentianus, Titinius, Zabdas, Petronius. Excerpt: Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 AD - August 25, 79 AD), 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. Spending most of his spare time studying, writing or investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field, he wrote an encyclopedic work, Naturalis Historia, which became a model for all such works written subsequently. Pliny the Younger, his nephew, wrote of him in a letter to the historian Tacitus: For 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...
