(November 23, 2014 at 8:49 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote: Pliny the Elder - a military officer (and famous author in his own right) who probably ended his career sometime during the waning years of Nero's reign.
Pliny the Elder died during the 79AD eruption of Vesuvius. He was commander of the Roman fleet at the naval base of Miseunum on the Bay of Naples at the time and tried to rescue a friend at Stabiae. He didn't make it.
Anyway, he was still going strong right up until the time he met an angry volcano!
God was clearly angry at his obstinate refusal to document Christ for the sake of an Internet argument.