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

About Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 or 24 – 25 August 79), known in English as Pliny the Elder ( PLIN-ee), was a Roman author, naturalist, scientist, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, procurator, and friend of Emperor Vespasian. Pliny wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia (Natural History), a thirty-seven-volume...