“Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she [Nature] abandon to cries and lamentations.”

— Pliny the Elder , book Natural History

Book VII, sec. 2.
Naturalis Historia

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Roman military commander and writer 23–79

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