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Titus Vestricius Spurinna (c. 24 – after 105 AD [1]) was a Roman senator, consul, and a friend and role model [2] of Pliny the Younger. [3] He was consul at least twice, the first time possibly in 72, and the second in the year 98 as the colleague of the emperor Trajan. [4]
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]
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 ]
Pliny the Younger was the governor of Bithynia and Pontus on the Black Sea coast of Anatolia, having arrived there as the representative of Emperor Trajan between 109 and 111 AD on September 17. [1] Pliny likely wrote the letters from Amisus. [13]
The next known reference to Christianity was written by Pliny the Younger, who was the Roman governor of Bithynia and Pontus during the reign of emperor Trajan. Around 111 AD, [77] Pliny wrote a letter to emperor Trajan. As it stands now, the letter is requesting guidance on how to deal with suspected Christians who appeared before him in ...
The life of Cnaeus Julius Agricola by Tacitus, Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb; Select Letters of Pliny the Younger. (1871); translated and edited by A. J. Church and W. J. Brodribb [3] Stories from Virgil. (1879) Stories from the Greek Tragedians. (1880) The Story of the Persian War. (1881) Stories of the East ...
Pliny's panegyric was set at the beginning of the collection as classical model of the genre. [1] Sometimes the author of the last speech, Pacatus, is credited as the editor of the final corpus . [ 39 ] [ 40 ] This belief is founded on the position of Pacatus' speech in the corpus —second after Pliny's—and because of the heavy debt Pacatus ...