Pliny the Elder

Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79)

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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

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Awards and Movements

Pulitzer Poetry 1969

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