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Pliny the Elder, writing in the first century AD, mentioned storms of frogs and fish.
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Long before, the Roman historian Pliny had speculated that there was another patch of land, to balance those already known.
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According to Pliny the Elder, the Roman prisoners were used by the Parthians as guards on their eastern frontier in what is today Turkmenistan.
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If Dr. Cooper and her team are successful at refining their work, hopefully the strict timing the Pliny prescribes will prove to be unnecessary.
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The aliens are a pell-mell combination of human features rather like the mythical headless Blemmyes, whose faces, according to Pliny the Elder, were in their chests.
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His students have been seen in Pompeii, reading Pliny's letters aloud as they stroll the streets, and at the Fons Bandusia near Rome, pouring wine into the water while reciting Horace.
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However, when a succession of his poems turn out to be adaptations or loose translations of Petronius, Sappho, Pliny the Elder and Boethius, you may find yourself hankering after an original voice even one as extravagant as Whitman's.
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