Pleione
A daughter of Oceanus, and mother of the Pleiades by Atlas.
Plinius, C. Secundus (the Elder). He was born at Verona, of a noble family. He distinguished himself in the field, and was appointed governor of Spain. When at Misenum in command of the Roman fleet, Pliny observed the appearance of a cloud of dust and ashes, which was the commencement of the famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius which overwhelmed Herculaneum and Pompeii.
He sailed for the scene of the eruption, where he was suffocated by the vapors emitted. This occurred in the seventy-ninth year of the Christian era.
Plinius, C.. Caecilius Secundus (the Younger Pliny). Son of L. Caecilius by the sister of Pliny the Elder. At the age of nineteen he distinguised himself at the bar. When Trajan was invested with the purple Pliny was created consul He died in the fifty-second year of his age, A. D. 113. Pliny had much to do with the persecutions of the Christians in the early promulgation of the Christian religion. The Rev. James Copland, M. A., in an admirable little work entitled Reasons Why We Believe the Bible, gives a very interesting letter from Pliny to the emperor Trajan, asking instructions how to deal with the Christians when they were cited to appear before him.