Letters, Volume II: Books 8-10. Panegyricus [Latin]

by Pliny the Younger

Correspondence from a distinguished and eventful life.

The Younger Pliny was born in AD 61 or 62, the son of Lucius Caecilius of Comum (Como) and the Elder Pliny's sister. He was educated at home and then in Rome under Quintilian. He was at Misenum at the time of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 (described in two famous letters) when the Elder Pliny died.

Pliny started his career at the Roman bar at the age of eighteen. He moved...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Latin
• ISBN: 0674990668
• ISBN13: 9780674990661
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.7" x 6.6"