pliny

Both Pliny and Seneca the Younger (3 BC-65 AD) also describe the magnifying effect of a glass globe filled with water.

Wouldn't it be amazing if you verified that Pliny The Elder had discovered the dolphins favourite nickname..

Because HN readers only drink Pliny the Elder and mentioning any other beer is down vote criteria.

Deschutes Red Chair, Pliny the Elder, etc.) and see recommendations based on that.

> Pliny the Elder (23-79AD) describes how glass balls filled with water could set clothes on fire when placed in line with the sun.

I personally like more aggressively hopped and flavored double/triple IPAs but Pliny was brilliant.

Trajan's program brought acclaim from many, including Pliny the Younger.

There is a reason that there aren't a lot of good ways to click a button to get Pliny The Elder: the market conditions for it suck.

I like how Pliny starts out with valid emotional perceptions of dolphins, transitions to a few believable factoids about them, and by the end of the article is basically just spreading myths and rumors.

I can get Pliny the Elder pretty easily here in San Diego.

Many Pliny was conflating dolphins and sharks?

Until I got to the 77 CE part in the title, I had hoped to see some study about the effect Pliny the Elder (the beer) had on Dolphins...

If you're saying "Philosopher or writer", Ovid, Virgil, Horace, Catullus, Tacitus, Pliny, Juvenal, Livy, Cicero and Martial.

It's funny that the beer is the first thing many of us think of when hearing 'Pliny the Elder' these days.

Pliny was trying to be comprehensive by communicating all that was believed about a subject, whether verified or not.

There's no evidence this was ever true, the whole salary/salarius thing is basically an offhanded potential backronym mentioned by Pliny.