Gaius Plinius

Reading notes

• The Annals §1.69 Gaius Pliny

  Pliny the Elder, cited as the historian of the German wars.

• The Histories §3.28 Gaius Plinius

  Pliny the Elder, the polymath and historian (died at Vesuvius in AD 79); one of Tacitus's named sources for the civil wars, here blaming Antonius for the sack.