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6543 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898) alphabetic letter N
   The group of the children of Niobé, discovered at Rome, near the Lateran Church, in 1583, and now at Florence, is well known; it is probably the Roman copy of a Greek work which stood in Pliny 's time in a temple of Apollo at Rome, and with regard to which it was a mooted point with the ancients whether it was from the hand of Scopas or of Praxiteles (Pliny , ). (14.16)

2. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter C
   A person of this name was entrusted by Pliny the Younger with the task of informing the decuriones of Comum that Pliny was willing, as a matter of bounty, not of right, to effectuate the intention of one Saturninus, who, after leaving 400,000 sesterces to the respublica Comensium (a legacy which was legally void), gave the residue of his property to Pliny. (14.02)

3. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter P
   At all events, we establish the existence of a family of Athenian statuaries, Polycles, his sons Timocles and Timarchides, and the sons of Timarchides, who either belonged (supposing Pliny to have made the mistake above suggested) to the later Attic school of the times of Scopas and Praxiteles, or (if Pliny be right) to the period of that revival of the art, about B. C. 155, which was connected with the employment of Greek artists at Rome. (12.76)

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27 from Renaissance Materials

1. William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 1, scene 4, commline 80
   The carbunculus of Pliny was a generic name for “every kind of red transparent, fiery stone: the Pyrope, the Almandine, and the Red Jacinth, equally with our Ruby”’ (King, Natural History of Precious Stones, p. 225). (4.92)

2. William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 3, scene 1, commline 183
   [Wright quotes the passage from Holland's Pliny as ‘very much to the purpose, but credits it to Malone; as regards Pope's and Singer's changes Wright says: ‘The figure requires some word which expresses the application to a sick body of some desperate remedy, which will either kill or cure, and not one which denotes the vamping or patching it like an old boot, or the imping or repairing it like the broken wing of a hawk. (3.80)

3. William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 3, scene 1, commline 183
   This seems to be the only meaning if ‘jump’ is genuine, and that word is in a measure supported by a passage which Steevens quotes from Holland's Pliny. (3.80)

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5 from The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra

1. Critical Commentary act 2, scene 7, commline 22
   they take the flow o'th'Nyle Reed: Pliny, speaking of the Nile, says: ‘How high it riseth, is known by markes and measures taken of certaine pits. (2.71)

2. Critical Commentary act 2, scene 2, commline 235
   brated Venus Anadyomene of Apelles which was painted from Campaspe as a model, whereof an account is given in Pliny's Natural History, Book xxxv, chap. 10. (2.26)

3. Critical Commentary act 1, scene 5, commline 47
   This circumstance of the pearl is not in Plutarch: but there is mention in Pliny—of a pearl (1.98)

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11 from The Tragedie of Coriolanus

1. William Shakespeare, Critical Commentary: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 1, scene 4, commline 80
   The carbunculus of Pliny was a generic name for “every kind of red transparent, fiery stone: the Pyrope, the Almandine, and the Red Jacinth, equally with our Ruby”’ (King, Natural History of Precious Stones, p. 225). (4.32)

2. William Shakespeare, Critical Commentary: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 3, scene 1, commline 183
   [Wright quotes the passage from Holland's Pliny as ‘very much to the purpose, but credits it to Malone; as regards Pope's and Singer's changes Wright says: ‘The figure requires some word which expresses the application to a sick body of some desperate remedy, which will either kill or cure, and not one which denotes the vamping or patching it like an old boot, or the imping or repairing it like the broken wing of a hawk. (3.51)

3. William Shakespeare, Critical Commentary: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 3, scene 1, commline 183
   This seems to be the only meaning if ‘jump’ is genuine, and that word is in a measure supported by a passage which Steevens quotes from Holland's Pliny. (3.42)

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25 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Blanchard Jerrold, Gustave Doré, London: A Pilgrimage chapter preface, page xvii
   Careful translators have bared all the mysteries and recesses of Pliny's meaning to architects, who hereupon have aspired to raise a perfect Roman (3.90)

2. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter A, entry 337
   translator from French; chiefly known by his English version, published c. 1567, of two French pamphlets, entitled ‘Theatrum Mundi’; translated also ‘Praise and Dispraise of Women,’ 1579, and possibly a French summary of Pliny, 1566. [i. 241] (2.57)

3. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter S, entry 29238
   d. 1669), dramatist and translator; Benedictine of Douay, 1625; became protestant; knighted, 1642; accompanied Charles I to Oxford after Edgehill; created D.C.L., 1642; gentleman usher to privy chamber, 1660; published four plays (three acted), some verses, and translations, including ‘Pliny's Panegyricke,’ 1644, and Musæus, 1645. [liv. (2.44)

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11 from American Memory: California

1. Happy days in southern California, by Frederick Hastings Rindge page 78
   But there are marvels in our animal kingdom, like the tarantula's nest, that would astonish Pliny. (3.80)

2. Addresses, reminiscences, etc. of General John Bidwell. Compiled by C.C. Royce page 66
   " But time will not suffice for prolonged exemplifications, which might be extended from ancient to modern times through all authentic history, and present an imposing array of illustrious names who have practiced or encouraged agriculture and other kindred and useful branches of industry, including those of Cincinnatus, Cato, Pliny and Columella, and so on to Peter the Great, Arthur Young, Napoleon I, Washington, Cvour, Liebig, and Lincoln. (2.26)

3. The Californians, by Walter M. Fisher page 20
   Looking at the water, one could well imagine another Vesuvius aflame, and another Pliny coasting along the Bay of Naples, as a scared Italian fisherman missed stays again and again trying to put his boat and its big latteen sail about in the strong current of the Golden Gate. (2.09)

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14 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. Historical collections. Collections and researches made by the Michigan pioneer and historical society ... Reprinted by authority of the Board of state auditors. Volume 15 page 306
   Pliny Hanky (4.11)

2. Michigan state gazetteer and business directory for 1863/1864, embracing historical and descriptive sketches of all the cities, towns and villages throughout the state page 54
   No. 58 Griswold Street,
   PLINY FREEMAN, Actuary. (3.61)

3. Memorials of a half-century page 397
   But my story is beaten by Pliny, who tells of a plane-tree in Lycia which measured eighty-one feet circumference. (2.32)

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8 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. Stephen Collins, The autobiography of Stephen Collins, M.D page 145
   Pliny says, “I have always observed that we are better men when we are sick than when we are well. (2.51)

2. William Wirt, The letters of the British spy. By William wirt page 249
   Yet it is remarkable, that seventy or eighty years afterwards, when the Roman style had become much more luxuriant, and was denounced by the critics of the day_ast; as having transcended the limits of genuine ornament, Pliny, the younger, in a letter to a friend, thought it necessary to enter into a formal vindication of three or four metaphors, which he had used in an oration, and which had been censured in Rome for their extravagance; but which, by the side of the meanest of Curran's figures, would be poor, insipid and flat. (2.09)

3. Joseph Pearson Farley, Three rivers, the James, the Potomac, the Hudson, a retrospect of peace and war, by Joseph Pearson Farley page 139
   After this, Terpsichore and Polymnia, with busts of Pliny and Livy; and Urania flanked by Copernicus and Galileo. (2.09)

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1 from Boyle Work Diaries

1. Ben Coates, Charles Littleton, Michael Hunter, The Work-diaries of Robert Boyle: Biographical and Bibliographical Register entry Pliny
   Pliny the elder (23-79), author of Historia naturales. (3.51)