At the start of the Middle Ages, Pliny the Elder wrote that 350 grams of cinnamon were worth 5, 000 grams of silver.
中世纪伊始，老普林尼写道，350克肉桂相当于5000克白银。
In two letters, Pliny described in detail the earthquakes before the eruption, the giant cloud of ash that shot into the air, a tsunami, and the effect on the people living around Vesuvius.
小普里尼在两封信件中，详细描述火山爆发前的地震、喷向空中的巨大灰烬云朵、海啸，以及对维苏威火山周围居民造成的影响。
Pliny busily collected knowledge and compiled it in his books, but not everything that was reported by him, proved to be correct.
普利尼忙着收集汇编的知识和在他的书，但不是一切，他的报告，证明是正确的。
Thus we are told by Pliny, *66 upon the authority of Tim钨s, an antient historian, that, till the time of Servius Tullius, the Romans had no coined money, but made use of unstamped bars of copper, to purchase whatever they had occasion for.
所以，普林尼告诉我们，根据一位古代历史学家蒂米阿斯的权威记载，在瑟维阿斯图利阿斯时代以前，罗马人没有铸币，只使用没有印记的铜块去购买他们想要的任何东西。
In Pliny their activity is limited to the practice of medicine and sorcery.
在普林尼的著作里面，他们的活动仅局限于医药和巫术的实践。
All the same, I should very much have liked to be Pliny the Younger.
但一如既往的，我非常希望成为小普里尼。
This is the same idea already described by Pliny the Elder - and still used 1700 years after his death.
这是同样的想法已经描述了老普林尼-和仍在使用一千七百年后，其死因。
You asked me to write you something about the death of my uncle Pliny, who died in an unforgettable disaster.
你叫我写信告诉你有关我叔叔普利尼死亡的一些情况，他是在一次难忘的灾难中去世的。
An Italian foundation which aims to recreate antique traditions distilled them according to techniques described by Pliny the Elder, by grinding the herbs, adding them to oil and water, then burying them in a small long-necked jug over hot embers for 12 hours.
一家意大利基金会根据专家的建议提取出香水瓶中的香精、然后加入精油和水，最后将混合物装入细颈小瓶并置于滚烫的灰烬上存放12小时。
Their food is milk, meat, wild fruits, and, as Pliny adds, oatmeal porridge (still the Celtic national food in Ireland and Scotland).
食物为乳、肉、野生果实，以及像普林尼所补充的燕麦粥（直到今日，这还是爱尔兰和苏格兰的克尔特人的民族食物）。
Pliny was most likely describing the reticulated python, a snake that can grow to a length of more than 30 feet.
普林尼的描述像极了网纹蟒，它可以生长到30多英尺长。
Pliny the Elder recorded that this land was 12, 000 km distant from C 醖 iz, and Uba, a Numidian king intended to establish a stock farm of purple Murex there.
老普林尼记载这块土地离乌巴大概12，000公里，一位努米底亚国王打算用紫色的骨螺在那里建立一个畜牧场。
If it is often true that, as Pliny has stated, the olive tree does not die but takes on new life from its trunk, nevertheless this is not proven in the case of, he Gethsemane trees.
就算如同第一世纪时期古罗马博物学家Pliny指定般真实，橄榄树没有死亡只是从树干延衍生了新生命。但即使如此，仍不能证明这就是当年的格责玛尼庄园中的橄榄树。
In two letters to the historian Tacitus, the nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote the only eyewitness account of the great eruption of Vesuvius.
在给塔希托的两封信中，老普林尼的侄子写了有关威苏威火山大喷发的唯一的证言。
Chapter 2 introduces two traditions of ancient documentation, one by the Elder Pliny and the other by Cicero-Quintilian. The thesis then lays out the studies of documentation by modern scholars.
第二章介绍了古代文献的两大传统：普林尼传统和西塞罗-昆体良传统，梳理了现代学者对文献的整理和研究。
My uncle, Pliny the elder, looked more asleep than dead.
与其说我叔叔老普利尼是死的，倒不如说他睡着了。
As a record of the geographical achievements, the Natural History written by the elder Pliny lived in the early days of the Roman Empire was a unique window to study on the ancient Greek and Roman geography.
罗马帝国初期的老普林尼的《自然史》中的地理学部分是之前地理学发展成就的忠实记录，是研究古希腊罗马地理学的一个得天独厚的窗口。
You type " squid " into a search engine, you land on the Wikipedia page about squid, and in no time you are reading about Jules Verne and Pliny.
你在搜索引擎上打入“乌贼”，马上就会被带入维基百科讲述乌贼的页面，没过多久你已经在阅读关于儒勒凡尔纳和普林尼的文章了。
Who are your favorite characters in history? A mixture of socrates, pericles, mahomet, Pliny the younger and Augustin thierry.
你最喜欢的历史人物是哪些？以下这些人都喜欢：苏格拉底，伯里克利，穆罕默德，小普林尼和奥古斯汀西耶里。
He had left a letter on my night table & not Pliny or Dylan Thomas, perhaps, but pretty majestic in its own right.
他在我的卧室桌子上留了一封信，也许没有小普利尼或迪伦·托马斯的那么感人，但就它本身而言已经相当美好了。