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28. Pline le naturaliste : conimonly called Pliny the Elder, to distinguish him from his nephew, Pliny the Younger, whoni he adopted. Appointed governor of Spain, he consecrated ail his leisure time to science and literature and wrote several works, of which his Natural History is the only one nuw extant. He was one of the victims of the éruption of Mount Vesuvius which buried Pompeii under a streani of lava aiid ashes in 79.