Pliny the Elder wrote that rye is a very poor food and only serves to avert starvation. This proves that grains were never considered fit for human consumption.
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Pliny
//ˈplɪni//
Synonyms for "pliny" (2 found)
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Translations
26 translations across 24 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- Պլինիոս name (Roman praenomen)
Bulgarian
1 entries- Пли́ний name (Roman praenomen)
Catalan
1 entries- Plini name (Roman praenomen)
Czech
1 entries- Plinius name (Roman praenomen)
Dutch
1 entries- Plinius name (Roman praenomen)
Esperanto
1 entries- Plinio name (Roman praenomen)
Finnish
1 entries- Plinius name (Roman praenomen)
French
1 entries- Pline name (Roman praenomen)
Galician
1 entries- Plinio name (Roman praenomen)
German
1 entries- Plinius name (Roman praenomen)
Italian
1 entries- Plinio name (Roman praenomen)
Japanese
1 entries- プリーニウス name (Roman praenomen)
Latin
1 entries- Plinius name (Roman praenomen)
Norwegian
1 entries- Plinius name (Roman praenomen)
Polish
1 entries- Pliniusz name (Roman praenomen)
Portuguese
1 entries- Plínio name (Roman praenomen)
Romanian
2 entries- Pliniu name (Roman praenomen)
- Plinius name (Roman praenomen)
Russian
1 entries- Плиний name (Roman praenomen)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- Plinije name (Roman praenomen)
- Плиније name (Roman praenomen)
Slovak
1 entries- Plínius name (Roman praenomen)
Slovene
1 entries- Plinij name (Roman praenomen)
Spanish
1 entries- Plinio name (Roman praenomen)
Swedish
1 entries- Plinius name (Roman praenomen)
Ukrainian
1 entries- Пліній name (Roman praenomen)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Some of these were letters expressing the name of the owner of all this extravagance; or the initials of various fair Roman dames, a very gallant pleasantry of young Pliny.
Source: tatoeba (11615587)
Pliny groups several stones, including garnet, under the term carbunculus.
Source: tatoeba (12351517)
The two Plinys, Lucan, (though again under the disadvantage of verse) Petronius Arbiter, and Quintilian, but above all, the Senecas, (for a Spanish cross appears to improve the quality of the rhetorician) have left a body of rhetorical composition such as no modern nation has rivalled.
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