Pliny the Younger
Roman lawyer and magistrate whose two letters to Tacitus are the only eyewitness account of the eruption of Vesuvius.
PersonAlso known as Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus
c. 61 CE O.S. – c. 113 CE O.S.
- Identifiers
- Wikidata Q168707
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Appears in10 items
- Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire1 item
- The Last Days of Pompeii9 items
- 24 August? The date in Pliny’s manuscripts · author24 Aug 79 CE O.S.
- The eruption · eyewitness24 Oct 79 CE O.S., 11:00
- A cloud shaped like a pine · narrator24 Oct 79 CE O.S., 11:00
- Rectina’s note; the fleet sails · narrator24 Oct 79 CE O.S., 12:00
- The night at Misenum · narrator24 Oct 79 CE O.S., 16:00
- The sun comes out, yellow as in an eclipse · narrator25 Oct 79 CE O.S.
- Flight from Misenum · narrator25 Oct 79 CE O.S., 06:00
- Darkness at Misenum · narrator25 Oct 79 CE O.S., 07:00
- Pliny writes to Tacitus · author106 CE O.S.
