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Pliny opens the letter (sections 1–4) with questions to Trajan concerning trials of Christians brought before him, since he says he has never been present at any trials of Christians. This may indicate that previous trials had taken place and that Pliny was unaware of any existing edicts under Trajan for prosecuting Christians. [ 15 ]
Pliny the Younger wrote hundreds of letters, of which 247 survived, and which are of great historical value. Some are addressed to reigning emperors or to notables such as the historian Tacitus . Pliny served as an imperial magistrate under Trajan (reigned 98–117), [ 2 ] and his letters to Trajan provide one of the few surviving records of ...
The greater share of the letters in book 10 concern Pliny's governorship of Bithynia-Pontus. Other major literary figures of the late 1st century AD appear in the collection as friends or acquaintances of Pliny's, e. g. the poet Martial, [3] the historian Tacitus and the biographer Suetonius. [4] However, arguably the most famous literary ...
In the first letter of his famous collection of correspondence, the Epistulae, Pliny the Younger credits Septicius’ constant urgings for motivating him to publish his letters. The intimate friendship between the two is evident in another letter where Pliny playfully chides Septicius for not appearing at a lavish dinner party. [2]
Suetonius was a close friend of senator and letter-writer Pliny the Younger. Pliny describes him as "quiet and studious, a man dedicated to writing". Pliny helped him buy a small property and interceded with the Emperor Trajan to grant Suetonius immunities usually granted to a father of three, the ius trium liberorum, because his marriage was ...
The Letters of the Younger Pliny [6] The Letters of Abelard and Heloise [7] Rome and Italy: Books VI-X of the History of Rome from Its Foundation [8] by Livy; The Comedies [9] by Terence; Who's Who in the Ancient World [10] Phormio & Other Plays [11] by Terence; Praise of Folly [12] by Erasmus
4 Should focus on the letters between Pliny and Trajan. 7 comments. 5 Authenticity of Book X. 1 comment. 6 cognitio extraordinarem. 2 comments. 7 Contumacia. 16 comments.
Pliny was a popular author in the late 4th century—Quintus Aurelius Symmachus modeled his letters on Pliny's, for example [29] —and the whole collection might have been designed as an exemplum in his honor. [30] He later revised and considerably expanded the work, which for this reason is by far the longest of the whole collection.