How to pronounce “pliny” in English

And Pliny notes that real diamonds would scratch other minerals, but not vise versa.

And Pliny also actually has a whole chapter-- it's kind of ranty, actually, and it's really funny-- where he describes all of these other fake gems

That's the Pliny example.

Russian River has their Pliny the Younger.

And Russian River's got Pliny the Elder, this amazing double IPA.

And we see this-- we see it in the letters of Pliny and Pliny the Elder and also in letters of Cicero and Tacitus

Like, way back in the ‘70s CE, Roman philosopher Pliny the Elder was the gemstone expert.

And by the first century CE, the Roman author and famous natural historian Pliny the Elder took on this question of what

And Pliny calls his readers' attention

Because the horns are only for show, as the Roman naturalist Pliny wrote, the bonasus has no way to deter predators and will run away as soon as it is threatened.

And again, we see this in Cicero's letters and those of Pliny the Elder and Tacitus.

Last anecdote-- in 1470, 15 years after Gutenberg's Bible, Niccoló Perotti, a translator of Latin in Italy, was much offended by a shoddy translation of Pliny.

fakery, forgery, and fraud in the classical world, Pliny offers what we might call a scratch test to be able to differentiate diamonds from fakes.

And so, OK, so Pliny has all of these ways that he's disgusted