Solinus
Sōlīnus, i, m. C. Julius,
- a Roman writer of the third century of the Christian era, author of a work entitled Polyhistor, mostly taken from Pliny's Historia Naturalis.
Sōlīnus, ī, m. , Solin, Égyptien qui a écrit en latin.
Solīnus, Gaius Iulius
A Roman writer who composed, probably in the second half of the third century A.D., a collection of Memorabilia (Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium, better known by its later title, in the sixth century, Polyhistor). The most important portion (the geographical) is an abstract of a treatise on geography compiled from Pliny 's Natural History. There is a critical edition by Mommsen (Berlin, 1864).