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Selected letters of Pliny by Gerald Burton Allen, 2010-08-29 The letters of pliny the Consul: with occasional remarks by William Melmoth, 2010-08-20 Pliny on Himself by Pliny the Younger, 1988-06 Education in Ancient Rome: From the Elder Cato to the Younger Pliny by Stanley F. Bonner, 1977-09-22 Pliny: A Selection of his Letters (Translations from Greek and Roman Authors) by Pliny, 1979-01-31 Epistolae et panegyricus. Ex editionibus P.D. Longolii et G.H. Schaeferi (Latin Edition) by Paullus Daniel Longolius, 2010-05-13 Letters. With an English translation by William Melmoth, rev. by W.M.L. Hutchinson by William Melmoth, 2010-08-24 Letters: Bks.I-VII v. 1 (Loeb Classical Library) by Pliny the Younger, 1969-06 Epistulae Briefe (DTV zweisprachig) (German Edition) by Pliny The Younger, 1984 C. Plinii Cæcilii Secundi Epistolæ et Panegyricus. (Latin Edition) by the Younger Pliny, 2010-06-10 Letters & the Panegyric (Epistularum Libri Novem / Epistularum Ad Trianum Liber / Panegyricus) by C.F.W. (ed.) Pliny the Younger; Mueller, 1903 Selected Letters by Pliny the Younger, 1925-12 The Art of Pliny's Letters: A Poetics of Allusion in the Private Correspondence by Ilaria Marchesi, 2008-03-10 Epistularum Libri Decem (Oxford Classical Texts) (Bk.10) by Pliny the Younger, 1963-12-31

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41. Pliny The Younger: Free Web Books, Online
    Telephone +61 8 8303 5372 Facsimile +61 8 8303 4369 Email library@adelaide.edu.au.pliny the younger. Biographical note. from Wikipedia. Works.  
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42. Jesus.Com.Au - Library - Documents - Pliny The Younger: Trials Of Christians, 11
    pliny the younger's letter to the Roman Emperor Trajan over the appropriatepunishment of Christians, 112 AD, and Trajan's reply.  
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    Extractions: Pliny the Younger (Plinius Secundus) was governor of the Roman province of Bithynia, on the southern coast of the Black Sea, for approximately two years around 112 AD. An expert in law, finance and administration, he was recalled from retirement by the Emperor Trajan in order to resolve the political unrest and administrative disorder in the province. One of his longer letters to Trajan, who was also a friend of his, concerned Christians and how they were to be tried under Roman law. The Emperor Trajan wrote a letter in reply, and these, with many other letters, Pliny published. In his reply Trajan may be understood to be softening, without rescinding, the harsher stances of his immediate predecessors, who instigated significant persecutions. University of Virginia E-Texts Pliny's Letter to Trajan Pliny, Epistles, 10.96 (excerpt) It is a rule, Sir, which I invariably observe, to refer myself to you in all my doubts, for who is more capable of guiding my uncertainty or informing my ignorance? Having never been present at any of the trials of the Christians, I am unacquainted with the method and limits to be observed either in examining or punishing them, whether any difference is to be made on account of age, or no distinction allowed between the youngest and the adult; whether repentance admits to a pardon, or if a man has been once a Christian it avails him nothing to recant; whether the mere profession of Christianity, albeit without the commission of crimes, or only the charges associated therewith are punishable - on all these points I am in considerable perplexity.

43. GIGA Quote Author Page For Pliny The Younger (Caius Caecilius Secundus)
    GIGA's compilation of quotations, excerpts, proverbs, maxims and aphorisms by Plinythe Younger (Caius Caecilius Secundus). BY AUTHOR pliny the younger (CAIUS  
    http://www.giga-usa.com/gigaweb1/quotes2/quautplinytheyoungerx001.htm

44. Pliny The Younger
    Short biography of pliny the younger, with regard to influence on the historyof garden design. Index to short biographies. pliny the younger b62 d114.  
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    Extractions: Garden History, Visit and Travel Guide HOMEPAGE GARDEN TOURS GARDEN FINDER GARDEN HOTELS ... Index to short biographies Pliny the Younger Nephew of Pliny the Elder, also an orator, famed for his charming letters. Pliny's letters give an account of upper class Roman life in the first century and include many references to Pliny's own gardens. [The full set of Pliny's garden letters is on the CD ] The letters were much studied during the renaissance as an authentic source of information on Roman gardens. The excerpt below is from one of Pliny's garden letters. It describes his villa at Tusci:- Many paths are separated by box. In one place you have a little meadow In another place the box is interposed in groups, and cut into a thousand different forms. Sometimes the letters express the name of the master, or that of the designer. Here and there little obelisks rise, mixed alternately with apple trees. Then suddenly, in the midst of this elegant regularity, you are surprised with an imitation of the negligent beauties of rural nature. In the centre is a spot surrounded with a knot of dwarf plane trees. Beyond these are clumps of the smooth and twisting acanthus. Then come a variety of figures and names cut in box. At the upper end of the garden is a semicircular bench of white marble. It is shaded with a vine which is trained upon four small pillars of Carystian marble. Water, gushes from several little pipes from under this bench, as if it were pressed out by the weight of the persons who sit upon it. The water falls into a stone cistern underneath, from whence it is received into a fine polished marble basin, so artfully contrived that it is always full without ever overflowing. When I eat here, the tray of dishes is placed around the margin, while the smaller dishes swim about in the form of little ships and waterfowl. Opposite this is a fountain which is incessantly emptying and filling, for the water which it throws up to a great height falling back again into it, is by means of connected openings returned as fast as it is received.

45. Pliny The Younger's Villas And Garden Letters
    AD Gardens in Pompeian frescoes pliny the younger's villas and garden letters c100AD Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli pliny the younger's villas and garden letters.  
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    Extractions: Garden History, Visit and Travel Guide HOMEPAGE GARDEN TOURS GARDEN FINDER GARDEN HOTELS ... The farming villa c40 BC Cicero and the urbane villa c40 BC Rome's gardens in the age of Augustus c 10 AD Gardens in Pompeian frescoes Pliny the Younger's villas and garden letters c100 AD Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli c130 AD Pompeii and the domestic garden 79 AD Gardens in the Roman Provinces c100 AD Roman gardens and Gothic invaders c200 AD Next Previous [Note: Pliny's garden letters are on the CD In everything we have so far looked at we have described individual instances only, whether by pictures or verbally. We first get the description of his own villa from Pliny ’s two garden letters, which are the only business-like accounts of much value and we find all features united in an intelligible fashion. No attempt shall be made here to reconstruct these villas in precise detail, for our knowledge is incomplete, and must remain so until the sites have been found and dug over. Any description would be rhetorical and obviously full of gaps. It is only when buildings by their arrangement actually imply the existence of gardens that they must be taken into consideration ( Fig. 65

46. Pliny The Younger
    Translate this page C. PLINII SECUNDI PANEGYRICUS. I. Bene ac sapienter, Patres Conscripti,maiores instituerunt, ut rerum agendarum, ita dicendi initium  
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    Extractions: XII. At nunc rediit omnibus terror et metus, et votum imperata faciendi. Vident enim Romanum ducem, unum ex illis veteribus et priscis; quibus imperatorium nomen addebant contecti caedibus campi et infecta victoriis maria. Accipimus obsides ergo, non emimus: nec ingentibus damnis immensisque muneribus paciscimur, ut vicerimus. Rogant, supplicant; largimur, negamus, utrumque ex imperii maiestate: agunt gratias, qui impetraverunt; non audent queri, quibus negatum est. An audeant, qui sciant, te adsedisse ferocissimis populis eo ipso tempore, quod amicissimum illis, difficillimum nobis: quum Danubius ripas gelu iungit, duratusque glacie ingentia tergo bella transportat: quum ferae gentes non telis magis, quam suo coelo, suo sidere armantur? Sed ubi in proximo tu, non secus ac si mutatae temporum vices essent, illi quidem latibulis suis clausi tenebantur; nostra agmina percursare ripas, et aliena occasione, si permitteres, uti, ultroque hiemem suam barbaris inferre, gaudebant. XIII.

47. Pliny The Younger
    http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/pliny.ep1.html
    
    Extractions: C. Plinii Caecilii Secundi Epistularum Liber Primus (1) Frequenter hortatus es, ut epistulas, si quas paulo curatius scripsissem, colligerem publicaremque. Collegi non servato temporis ordine - neque enim historiam componebam -, sed ut quaeque in manus venerat. (2) Superest ut nec te consilii nec me paeniteat obsequii. Ita enim fiet, ut eas quae adhuc neglectae iacent requiram et si quas addidero non supprimam. Vale. C. PLINIUS CANINIO RUFO SUO S. C. PLINIUS POMPEIAE CELERINAE SOCRUI S. (1) Quantum copiarum in Ocriculano, in Narniensi, in Carsulano, in Perusino tuo, in Narniensi vero etiam balineum! Ex epistulis meis, nam iam tuis opus non est: una illa brevis et verus sufficit. (2) Non mehercule tam mea sunt quae mea sunt, quam quae tua; hoc tamen differunt, quod sollicitius et intentius tui me quam mei excipiunt. Idem fortasse eveniet tibi, si quando in nostra deverteris. (3) Quod velim facias, primum ut perinde nostris rebus ac nos tuis perfruaris, deinde ut mei expergiscantur aliquando, qui me secure ac prope neglegenter exspectant. (4) Nam mitium dominorum apud servos ipsa consuetudine metus exolescit; novitatibus excitantur, probarique dominis per alios magis quam per ipsos laborant. Vale. C. PLINIUS VOCONIO ROMANO SUO S.

48. Project Gutenberg Bibliographic Record
    Project Gutenberg Bibliographic Record. Title Letters Of pliny the younger, The. LettersOf pliny the younger, The, (ASCII), etext01, ltpln10.txt, 520 KB, 2811.  
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49. Pliny The Younger To His Wife, Calpurnia
    pliny the younger to his wife, Calpurnia The Lovers. Gaius Plinius CaeciliusSecundus (AD 61/62c. 113) Roman lawyer and writer known  
    http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Parc/9893/pliny.html
    
    Extractions: Like Pliny, was born in Comum. Orphaned at an early age, she was brought up by her wealthy grandfather, Calpurnius Fabatus, the manager of Pliny's large estates, and by her aunt Calpurnia Hispula. She married Pliny when she was probably in her early teens, and traveled with him to Bithynia. In his last surviving letter, he told the emperor Trajan that he had issued her a permit (which he should not have done without the emperor's permission) enabling her to return home quickly so that she could be with her bereaved aunt after the death of her grandfather. While she was away, Pliny himself died. You say that you are feeling my absence very much, and your only comfort when I am not there is to hold my writings in your hand and often put them in my place by your side. I like to think that you miss me and find relief in this sort of consolation. I, too, am always reading your letters, and returning to them again and again as if they were new to mebut this only fans the fire of my longing for you. If your letters are so dear to me, you can imagine how I delight in your company; do write as often as you can, although you give me pleasure mingled with pain.

50. Pliny The Younger To His Wife, Calpurnia
    pliny the younger to his wife, Calpurnia In the nine books of personal lettersthat pliny the younger published during his lifetime, he made his bid for  
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    Extractions: In the nine books of personal letters that Pliny the Younger published during his lifetime, he made his bid for immorality. The letters reveal both the public man he wanted remembereda successful lawyer, a keen observer of human nature, and an efficient administratorand in letters such as the one printed here, the private man: the devoted husband of a young and loving wife. Pliny the Younger was born in Comum (present-day Como), beside the beautiful lakes of northern Italy, in A.D. 61 or 62 and educated in Rome. In A.D. 79 his uncle, the writer Pliny the Elder, was killed in the eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed the city of Pompeii. He left a will formerlly adopting his nephew as his heir. The following year Pliny began to practice law. He gained a reputation for skill and honesty in handling civil cases concerning disputed inheritances; success in civic and state administration followed, and he became a consul, the highest office of state, at the exceptionally early age of 39. By that time he had already been married twice. To his great grief, both his wives died childless, the second in A.D. 97. Having lived through the cruel reign of the emperor Domitian, he ws acutely aware of the uncertainty of life and longed for a child to continue his name. The emperor Trajan, who had a good working relationship with Pliny, granted him in A.D. 98 the privileges of extra land reserved for parents of three children. He wrote in reply:

51. Pliny The Younger
    pliny the younger. Letter Concerning the Christian Problem. Epistle97. Pliny to the Emperor Trajan. It is my invariable rule, Sir, to  
    http://www.molloy.edu/academic/philosophy/sophia/ancient_lit/pliny.htm
    
    Extractions: Pliny the Younger Letter Concerning the Christian Problem Epistle 97 Pliny to the Emperor Trajan Epistle 98 Trajan to Pliny You have adopted the right course, my dearest Secundus, in investigating the charges against the Christians who were brought before you. It is not possible to lay down any general rule for all such cases. Do not go out of your way to look for them. If indeed they should be brought before you, and the crime is proved, they must be punished; with the restriction, however, that where the party denies he is a Christian, and shall make it evident that he is not, by invoking our gods, let him (notwithstanding any former suspicion) be pardoned upon his repentance. Anonymous informations ought not to be received in any sort of prosecution. It is introducing a very dangerous precedent, and is quite foreign to the spirit of our age.

52. Pliny The Younger - Says Jesus Was Worshipped As A God
    Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (AD 61112), or pliny the younger,was the governor of Bithynia (AD 112) and a Roman senator. He  
    http://www.neverthirsty.org/pp/hist/pliny.html
    
    Extractions: Christians were "meeting on a certain fixed day before it was light, when they sang in alternate verse a hymn to Christ as to a god, and bound themselves to a solemn oath, not to do wicked deeds, never commit fraud, theft, adultery, not to lie nor to deny a trust. . . " Epistles X96 This reference reveals several key things: 1) Jesus was worshipped like a god.

53. Pliny
    24. pliny the younger. Works; De viris illustribus; Suetonius. De clarisgrammaticis et rhetoribus; Julius Obsequens. Prodigiorum liber (1508).  
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    Extractions: Pliny (ca. A.D. 61-ca. 112), is best known for his elegantly crafted letters to a broad circle of acquaintances covering subjects from business and government affairs to personal observations on subjects of interest to the author. The Aldine edition is the first publication of all ten books of letters. The discovery and publication of the complete manuscript of Pliny, unknown until the beginning of the sixteenth century, was one of the great accomplishments of Aldus's life. As soon as the Aldine edition was published this important and unique manuscript disappeared, probably discarded by the press after the book was produced. Thus the 1508 Aldine Pliny remains crucial today as evidence for the textual tradition of this author. Exhibit Home Page Greek and Latin Classics

54. Pliny The Younger - Acapedia - Free Knowledge, For All
    pliny the younger. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 113), better known aspliny the younger, was a lawyer, an author and a scientist of Ancient Rome.  
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55. Anecdote Simplinicity? Pliny The Younger Modesty Manners Eq
    Not at all, Pliny replied, for my freedmen don't drink the same wine as Ido I drink what they do. pliny the younger, (c. 61-c. 133), Roman orator  
    http://anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=3843

56. Historyforkids!
    Roman Literature Younger Pliny pliny the younger was the nephew of Pliny the Elder,and was visiting his uncle at Pompeii when his uncle died in the eruption.  
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    Extractions: Younger Pliny Pliny the Younger was the nephew of Pliny the Elder , and was visiting his uncle at Pompeii when his uncle died in the eruption . Pliny the Younger, however, did not die, and has left us the only eye-witness account of what the eruption was like. Pliny went on to become a fairly important politician in the Roman Empire under the emperor Trajan Trajan sent Pliny to be the governor of Bithynia (on the Black Sea ) in 117 AD , where he had to run the province and make sure there were no revolts and everyone paid their taxes. While he was trying to keep order there, he ran into some problems with the Christians which provide our first evidence that Christianity had become illegal. Pliny was a great letter-writer, and he kept copies of many of his letters and later published them for everyone to read. Many of his letters have survived to the present day. They provide very useful information about the life of wealthy aristocrats in Rome during the Golden Age of the Roman Empire.

57. Biographies: Pliny The Younger
    pliny the younger. aius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, pliny the younger, wasborn into a wealthy family and adopted by his uncle, Pliny the Elder.  
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    Extractions: aius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Pliny the Younger, was born into a wealthy family and adopted by his uncle, Pliny the Elder. He began to practice law at 18. His reputation in the civil-law courts placed him in demand in the political court that tried provincial officials for extortion. His most notable success was securing condemnation of a governor in Africa and a group of officials from Spain. Meanwhile he had attained the highest administrative posts, becoming praetor, in 93, and consul, in 100. After administering the drainage board of the city of Rome, between 104 and 106, he was sent (c. 110) by Emperor Trajan to investigate corruption in the municipal administration of Bithynia, where apparently he died two years later. Between 100 and 109 he published nine books of selected, private letters, beginning with those covering events from the death of Emperor Domitian (October 97) to the early part of 100. The 10th book contains addresses to Emperor Trajan on sundry official problems and the emperor's replies. The private letters are carefully written, occasional letters on diverse topics. Each holds an item of recent social, literary, political, or domestic news, or sometimes an account of an earlier but contemporary historical event, or else initiates moral discussion of a problem. There are letters of advice to young men, notes of greeting and inquiry, and descriptions of scenes of natural beauty or of natural curiosities. Pliny also left a detailed picture of the amateur literary world with its custom of reciting works to seek critical revision from friends. Estate business is a frequent theme.

58. PLINY THE YOUNGER: ERUPTION OF MT. VESUVIUS, AD 79
    pliny the younger ERUPTION OF MT. VESUVIUS, AD 79. TO CORNELIUSTACITUS. So the letter which you asked me to write on my uncle's  
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    Extractions: PLINY THE YOUNGER: ERUPTION OF MT. VESUVIUS, AD 79 TO CORNELIUS TACITUS So the letter which you asked me to write on my uncle's death has made you eager to hear about the terrors and hazards I had to face when left at Misenum, for I broke off at the beginning of this part of my story. 'Though my mind shrinks from remembering. . .I Will begin.' At this point my uncle's friend from Spain spoke up still more urgently: 'If your brother, if your uncle is still alive, he will want you both to be saved; if he is dead, he would want you to survive himwhy put off your escape?' We replied that we would not think of considering our own safety as long as we were uncertain of his. Without waiting any longer, our friend rushed off and hurried out of danger as fast as he could. At last the darkness thinned and dispersed like smoke or cloud; then there was genuine daylight, and the sun actually shone out, but yellowish as it is during an eclipse. We were terfified to see everything changed, buried deep in ashes like snowdrifts. We returned to Misenum where we attended to our physical needs as best we could, and then spent an anxious night alternating between hope and fear. Fear predominated, for the earth-quakes went on, and several hysterical individuals made their own and other people's calamities seem ludicrous in comparison with their frightful predictions. But even then, in spite of the dangers we had been through and were still expecting, my mother and I had still no intention of leaving until we had news of my uncle.

59. Pliny The Younger
    Home Up Date c. 115 AD, Material Marble Plaque, Findspot Como, Italy. NotesThis is the one full career inscription that exists for pliny the younger.  
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    Extractions: Date: c. 115 A.D. Material: Marble Plaque Findspot: Como, Italy Notes: This is the one full career inscription that exists for Pliny the younger. Pieces of the text were found in a church in Pliny's native Como and had once stood in the Roman library that Pliny had commissioned to have built out of his estate after his death. The inscription first records the career of Pliny followed by his acts of philanthropy both in Rome and his hometown. The text was published in CIL 5.5262. Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, son of Lucius, of the Oufentina tribe, consul, augur, legate with pro-praetorian powers of the province of Pontus and Bithynia, sent with consular powers to that province, a position granted by decree of the Senate and approved by the emperor Caesar Nerva Trajan Augustus Germanicus Dacicus, father of his country, caretaker of the course of the Tiber and its banks and of the sewers of Rome, prefect of the treasury of Saturn, prefect of the military treasury, praetor, tribune of the plebs, quaestor of the emperor, one of the six men in charge of a squadron of Roman knights, military tribune of the 3 rd legion Gallica , one of the 10 men in charge of hearing legal cases, requested in his will that baths be built out of funds equal to [?]

60. Life Of Pliny The Younger
    Notes The first letter describes pliny the younger's daily routine duringthe more relaxed summer. The second describes his winter routine.  
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    Extractions: Date: 2nd Century AD Material: Literary Text Notes: The first letter describes Pliny the Younger's daily routine during the more relaxed summer. The second describes his winter routine. Letter 9.35 (to Fuscus Salinator) Letter 9.40 (to Fuscus Salinator) You say you were delighted with my letter describing how I spend my summer holidays in Tuscany, and you want to know what changes I make at Laurentum in winter. None, except that I cut out my siesta and shorten my nights a good deal by using the hours before dawn or after sunset; and, if I have an urgent case pending, as often happens in winter, instead of having comedy or music after dinner I work again and again over what I have dictated, and so fix it in my memory by repeated revision. Now that you have my habits in summer and winter you can add spring and autumn, the intermediate seasons, during which none of the day is wasted and so very little is stolen from the night. Return to Roman Achievement Last Updated

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