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2. Gigarta - Wikipedia

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   Gigarta (also known as Gigartus in classical sources) was an ancient settlement in northern Lebanon. Noted primarily in the Museiliha inscription found in the vicinity of the Mseilha Fort , Gigarta appears to have been involved in a territorial dispute with Caesarea ad Libanum (modern Arqa) during the first century AD.

3. Pliny the Elder - Wikipedia

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   Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24–79), known in English as Pliny the Elder (/ ˈ p l ɪ n i / PLIN-ee), [1] was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.

4. Carthago delenda est - Wikipedia

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   Its current form was made by English and French scholars at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, while German scholars have used the longer "Ceterum censeo Carthaginem delendam esse ". [12] Ancient authors quote the phrase as follow: Pliny the Elder, in his Natural History: "[Cato], cum clamaret omni senatu Carthaginem delendam, … " [13]

5. Capitolias - Wikipedia

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   The town is one of the ten cities of the Decapolis listed by Pliny the Elder. [6] There are many primary sources, including Pliny the Elder that list different variations of the cities of the Decapolis. Capitolias was founded as a planned Roman city, perhaps for military purposes, [5] under Nerva or Trajan in 97 or 98 CE.

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7. Natural History (Pliny) - Wikipedia

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   However, it does have structure: Pliny uses Aristotle's division of nature (animal, vegetable, mineral) to recreate the natural world in literary form. [6] Rather than presenting compartmentalised, stand-alone entries arranged alphabetically, Pliny's ordered natural landscape is a coherent whole, offering the reader a guided tour: "a brief ...

8. 'Pliny The Elder' voted best beer in the nation - AOL

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   The American Homebrewer's Association has voted Russian River Brewing Company's Pliny The Elder as the number one beer in the US for the seventh year in a row. AHA members were asked to list their ...

9. Apollonia (Athos) - Wikipedia

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   Apollonia (Greek: Ἀπολλωνία) was an ancient town in the peninsula of Acte, or Mount Athos in Macedonia, the inhabitants of which were called Macrobii. [1] Homer mentions Athos in the Iliad (Rhapsody 219) and, in connection to Mount Athos, Gaius Plinius Secundus (the ancient historian and Roman commander also known as Pliny the Elder), refers to the cities of Ouranoupolis, Palaiotrion ...