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Re: pliny maior et minor

To: DML <Dinosaur@usc.edu>
Subject: Re: pliny maior et minor
From: Gautam Majumdar <gmajumdar@freeuk.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 15:53:32 +0000
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On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 22:48, David Marjanovic wrote:
> Ah, Secundus is the cognomen. That explains it.
>
> > and I believe the relation was grandparent/grandchild, not
> > parent/child; however I have not at my fingertips THAT
> > documentation.
>
> Weren't they uncle and nephew?

Yes. Pliny the elder was maternal uncle of Pliny the younger.

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