Question

This person wrote 20 volumes to complete Aufidius Bassus' magnum opus after Bassus' sudden death. This person served in Germania under the half-brothers Corbulo and Secundus, a region he would later write about in his lost Bella Germaniae. After an urgent lent sent by Rectina, this person led a naval expedition to Senator Pomponianus' location. This person desribed fantastical half-dog people in a book which became a model for future encyclopedias. (10[2])On a journey to Stabiae, this person remarked ■END■

ANSWER: Pliny the Elder [or Gaius Plinius Secundus; prompt on Pliny; do not accept "Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus"]
<Lalit Maharjan , History - Other - Ancient>
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