Citations:laugh off


 * 2020, Franz Lidz, Here Lies the Skull of Pliny the Elder, Maybe, (14 February 2020);
 * One body bore gold bracelets with designs of vipers, a gold triple-strand necklace and a parazonium, a triangular dagger sheathed in seashells, with an ivory hilt. The skeleton was supine, its skull rested on a pillar. The landowner, Gennaro Matrone, had a hunch that these were the remains of Pliny the Elder (the Younger wrote of his uncle’s body lying as if asleep on the day after the eruption), but his theory was laughed off in the press.