Synonyms for Pliny (same or very similar meaning)
WordNet sense 1 (Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62-113)):
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Pliny the YoungerWordNet sense 2 (Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79)):
Gaius Plinius Secundus, Pliny the ElderFrom the ODE community, based on WordNetadd/edit