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"Captain says we're gonna die. I say audentes fortuna iuvat! #YOLO!" - Last tweet of Pliny the Elder
"I wish I didn't have homework so I could've gone with my uncle to check out the volcano! He's so cool!" - Same-day tweet of his nephew Pliny the Younger
I don't know why we always use 'the elder' and 'the younger' for all these guys (see also Cato or Pitt*) and not 'the elder' and 'the lame loser' instead.
* I might be French, sorry for the offense caused
Pliny the Elder: Statesman, scholar, wrote the first encyclopedia, traveled the Empire, died saving one of his friends from certain doom from a literal volcano
Pliny the Lame Loser: Was a governor, had some letters where he sucks up to the Emperor or something, idk
(unironically Pliny the Younger's letters are supremely interesting, but it's hard to live up to his uncle's legacy!)
Both Catos sound like dicks, though.
100%, fuck the Catos