'Doubtless Pliny's "Encyclopædia" is ultimately responsible for much of the confused natural history of the Middle Ages, and not only Chaucer, but also the sixteenth century Euphuists, with their egregious similitudes, are almost certainly in his debt'.
PLINY, CAIUS. (CAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS.) The younger. b. 61 A.D., Latin author and orator.
THE LETTERS OF PLINY THE CONSUL, with occasional remarks by Wm. Melmoth, 1746.
The 'Letters of Pliny' are the most precious relics of Roman epistolary correspondence that have come down to us.
The model for the modern letters of Horace Walpole and Pope.
PLUTARCH. b. 50, d. 120. Greek philosopher and moralist. The greatest biographer of antiquity.
THE EDUCATION or BRINGING UP OF CHILDREN. Tr. out of Plutarch. By Syr T. Eliot [1535].
THE GOVERNAÑCE OF GOOD HELTHE, by the most excellent phylosopher Plutarche [1530].
HOWE ONE MAY TAKE PROFITE OF HIS ENMYES, translated out of Plutarche [by Sir T. Elyot] [1535].
THE LIVES OF THE MOST NOBLE GRECIANS AND ROMANS COMPARED TOGETHER BY PLUTARKE. Tr. [from the French of Amyot] by Thomas North, 1579.