Pliny the Elder argued eels rubbed themselves against rocks, and the subsequent scrapings came to life.

老普林尼则认为，鳗鱼会在岩石上摩擦自己，随后刮下的碎屑就有了生命。

Why, in the name of Pliny the Elder, do we have to use Roman numerals like a bunch of Romans?

为什么，以老普林尼的名义， 我们必须像一群罗马人一样使用罗马数字？

Tacitus possibly spent  time here, as well as Pliny the Elder, who in the 70s AD was compiling his famous Natural History, one of the foremost encyclopaedias of knowledge compiled in Roman times.

塔西佗和老普林尼可能都曾在这里度过过一段时光，老普林尼在公元 70 年代正在编纂他著名的自然史，这是罗马时代编纂的最重要的知识百科全书之一。