In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

Pliny the Elder

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Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24–79), called Pliny the Elder (), was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia (Natural History), a comprehensive thirty-seven-volume work covering a vast array...

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