Letters of Pliny by the Younger Pliny

"Letters of Pliny" by the Younger Pliny is a collection of personal letters written in the 1st century AD. These Latin missives to friends and associates offer unique testimony to Roman administrative life and daily existence. The collection includes Pliny's famous eyewitness account of Mount Vesuvius's eruption in 79 AD, which killed his uncle Pliny the Elder, and a notable letter seeking imperial guidance on handling Christians. The letters feature prominent Roman figures including Martial, Tacitus, and Suetonius, providing intimate glimpses into late first-century Roman society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Pliny, the Younger, 61-112?
Editor Bosanquet, F. C. T. (Frederick Charles Tindal), 1847-1928
Translator Melmoth, William, 1710?-1799
Title Letters of Pliny
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistulae_(Pliny)
Credits Produced by David Reed and David Widger
Reading Level Reading ease score: 55.5 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class PA: Language and Literatures: Classical Languages and Literature
Subject Pliny, the Younger -- Correspondence
Subject Latin letters -- Translations into English
Subject Authors, Latin -- Rome -- Correspondence
Subject Lawyers -- Rome -- Correspondence
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EBook-No. 2811
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Most Recently Updated Nov 11, 2018
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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