In the first century A.D., Pliny the Elder wrote of using sea urchin ashes to treat baldness.

公元一世纪，老普林尼曾写过用海胆的灰烬治疗来秃头。

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The story comes from Pliny the Elder almost 2, 000 years ago.

这个故事被2000年前的老普林尼记下。

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Back in the first century, AD, Pliny the Elder, a great Roman scholar, collected descriptions of creatures who lived at the very edge of the known world.

早在公元一世纪，伟大的罗马学者老普林尼，收集了当时已知的，所谓在世界边缘生活的各种生物的图形。

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More than two thousand years ago, the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder observed its harmful effects.

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The aliens are a pell-mell combination of human features rather like the mythical headless Blemmyes, whose faces, according to Pliny the Elder, were in their chests.

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Pliny the Elder, writing in the first century AD, mentioned storms of frogs and fish.

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According to Pliny the Elder, the Roman prisoners were used by the Parthians as guards on their eastern frontier in what is today Turkmenistan.

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