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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]
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Pliny the Younger on Christians; S. Suetonius on Christians; T. The True Word This page was last edited on 17 September 2023, at 17:37 (UTC). Text is available ...
The passage shows the clear contempt of Suetonius for Christians - the same contempt expressed by Tacitus and Pliny the Younger in their writings. [2] Stephen Benko states that the contempt of Suetonius is quite clear, as he reduces Christians to the lowest ranks of society and his statement echoes the sentiments of Pliny and Tacitus. [24]
More recently, the authenticity of this letter has been seriously questioned, on the basis of stylometric analysis which seems to indicate that a different person wrote the letter than wrote the others contained in the tenth "book" of Pliny's collected epistles, although a majority of historians view the letter as authentic.