" But even lying on the ground, it is a marvel" , said Pliny the Elder.

“但是即便在它倒塌在地时，仍不失是为一个奇观。”

Pliny the Elder argued eels rubbed themselves against rocks, and the subsequent scrapings came to life.

老普林尼则认为，鳗鱼会在岩石上摩擦自己，随后刮下的碎屑就有了生命。

The historian Pliny the Elder alluded to a popular saying, about wine bringing out the truth.

历史学家老普林尼 (Pliny the Elder) 提到了一句流行的说法，即酒能揭示真相。

Why, in the name of Pliny the Elder, do we have to use Roman numerals like a bunch of Romans?

为什么，以老普林尼的名义， 我们必须像一群罗马人一样使用罗马数字？

For Pliny tells us of Whales that embraced acres of living bulk, and Aldrovandus of others which measured eight hundred feet in length—Rope Walks and Thames Tunnels of Whales!

因为普林尼告诉我们，鲸鱼活着时身躯有好几英亩大，而阿德罗凡提则说，有些鲸长达八百英尺—简直是鲸鱼中的制索厂和泰晤士隧道！

Pliny ascribes to the Emperor Nero the invention of the ice bucket, as a method of cooling wine without diluting it with ice that had been stored in pungent straw and cloth.

普林尼将冰桶的发明归功于尼禄皇帝，即一种冷藏葡萄酒的方法，用冰桶储存的葡萄酒无需用放在难闻的稻草里或布里的冰块进行稀释。

Tacitus possibly spent  time here, as well as Pliny the Elder, who in the 70s AD was compiling his famous Natural History, one of the foremost encyclopaedias of knowledge compiled in Roman times.

塔西佗和老普林尼可能都曾在这里度过过一段时光，老普林尼在公元 70 年代正在编纂他著名的自然史，这是罗马时代编纂的最重要的知识百科全书之一。