The story comes from Pliny the Elder almost 2, 000 years ago.
这个故事被2000年前的老普林尼记下。
In the first century A.D., Pliny the Elder wrote of using sea urchin ashes to treat baldness.
公元一世纪，老普林尼曾写过用海胆的灰烬治疗来秃头。
Pliny was a Roman who lived in the first century and wrote something called the Natural History.
pliny是生活在一世纪的罗马人，曾经写过一本叫做《自然历史》的书。
Pliny called it "the largest in the whole of history," a "remarkable and truly unique work of nature" worth 10 million sesterces.
据老普林尼说，那颗珍珠是史上最大的珍珠，是自然的神来之笔，价值达1000万塞斯·特斯。
Back in the first century, AD, Pliny the Elder, a great Roman scholar, collected descriptions of creatures who lived at the very edge of the known world.
早在公元一世纪，伟大的罗马学者老普林尼，收集了当时已知的，所谓在世界边缘生活的各种生物的图形。
The tragedy had left a deep impression on Pliny who had lost an uncle in the event.
灾难给普利尼留下了难以磨灭的印象，他叔叔在灾难中丧生。
This particularly sad event left a deep impression on Pliny who had lost an uncle in the eruption.
这个尤为悲哀的事件给在火山爆发中失去叔叔的普利尼留下了深刻的印象。
It was clear from the accounts of the historian Pliny (23-79 A. D.) that the Romans also possessed burning-glasses.
从历史学家普林尼(公元23- 79年)的记述中清楚知道罗马人也有点火镜。
According to 4 Pliny, there is a stone in Arabia called 5 Selenites, "wherein is a white, which increases and decreases with the moon."
据普林尼说，在阿拉伯有一种石头叫月光石，“其中映现一抹白色，会随着月的盈亏而改变大小。”
It was mentioned by the Roman writer Pliny during the first century AD, and in the Middle Ages it was a popular 1 folk medicine for fever.
在公元一世纪时，罗马作家蒲林尼就曾提及这件事，而在中世纪，它是民间流行的退烧药方。
In two letters to the historian Tacitus, the nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote the only eyewitness account of the great eruption of Vesuvius.
在给塔希托的两封信中，老普林尼的侄子写了有关威苏威火山大喷发的唯一的证言。
Pliny described a cloud coming down the mountain, blocking out the sun and burying everything in its path, including whole villages and towns.
普利尼描述道，当时一团云自山巅而降，遮天蔽日，将所经之处的一切，包括一座座村庄和城镇统统吞没。
In recording the horror of the event, Pliny the Younger, a Roman author, left behind this record that still benefits historians and scientists today.
记录下这次事件恐怖面貌的罗马作家小普林尼，遗留给世人的这份纪录，至今仍嘉惠着历史学家和科学家。
As early as the first century AD , Pliny the Elder wrote that the sap of a tithymalus plant could be used to render a message invisible to prying eyes.
早在公元一世纪，罗马学者老普林尼写道：“用大戟树汁书写，字迹可以隐形。”
Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fable steers us back to Latin in explaining that Pliny thought hyenas had a kind of stone in their eye, that if you put under your tongue gave the gift of prophecy.
《布留沃成语和寓言词典》把我们的视线拉回到拉丁语世界，它写道，古罗马作家普林尼认为，鬣狗的眼睛里有某种石头，若把它压在舌头下，你就能预知未来。
Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fable steers us back to Latin in explaining that Pliny thought hyenas had a kind of stone in their eye, that if you put under your tongue gave the gift of prophecy.
《布留沃成语和寓言词典》把我们的视线拉回到拉丁语世界，它写道，古罗马作家普林尼认为，鬣狗的眼睛里有某种石头，若把它压在舌头下，你就能预知未来。
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