Lewis Short
(adjective) : Plīnĭus, i, m.
* Pliny, name of a Roman gens. The most celebrated are
* C. Plinius Secundus, also called Major (the Elder), author of an encyclopedical work in 37 books, who lost his life in an eruption of Vesuvius, A. D. 79.
* His nephew, C. Plinius Caecilius, also called Junior (the Younger), author of Letters and a Pane gyric on the emperor Trajan: facundus,Mart. 10, 19, 3.
* Plinius Valerianus, a physician in the time of the emperor Constantine.—Hence, Plīnĭānus, a, um, , belonging to or named after a Pling, Plinian: rasa,Plin. 15, 25, 30, § 103.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary