| It was previously believed that he was involved in the suppression of a slave revolt in Apulia, probably in 24, alongside Marcus Aelius Celer. |
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| Pliny was the son of an equestrian, Gaius Plinius Celer, and his wife, Marcella. |
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| Additional efforts to connect Celer and Marcella with other gentes are highly speculative. |
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| He did not take his father's cognomen, Celer, but assumed his own, Secundus. |
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| Jean Hardouin presents a statement from an unknown source that he claims was ancient, that Pliny was from Verona and that his parents were Celer and Marcella. |
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