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Pliny the Younger

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Como, Italy

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Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 AD – ca. 112 AD), better known as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him and they were both witnesses to the eruption of Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD.

"You would have heard the wails of women, the shrieks of infants, shouts of men; some were seeking parents with their voices, others children, others spouses, and by their voices they were recognizing them; some were pitying their own misfortune, others the misfortune of their families; there were those who - due to the fear of death - were praying for death; many raised their hands toward the gods, more were concluding ...more

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	The Letters of the Younger Pliny by Pliny the Younger, Betty Radice (Translator/Introduction) 3.92 avg rating — 2,011 ratings — published 109 — 223 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ashen Sky: The Letters of Pliny The Younger on the Eruption of Vesuvius by Pliny the Younger, Pliny the Elder 4.04 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fifty Letters of Pliny 3.98 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 112 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters, Volume I: Books 1–7 by Pliny the Younger, Betty Radice (Translator) 4.25 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 112 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plinius nuorempi: kirjeitä keisariajan Roomasta by Pliny the Younger, Marja Itkonen-Kaila (Editor) 3.74 avg rating — 53 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De Vesuvius in vlammen by Pliny the Younger, Vincent Hunink (Translator), Plinius 3.63 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 112	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Complete Works of Pliny the Younger 4.47 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 112 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters, Volume II: Books 8–10. Panegyricus by Pliny the Younger, Betty Radice (Translator) 3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 112 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letter to Sura 3.17 avg rating — 29 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Ancient Ghost Story 3.54 avg rating — 24 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.”
― Pliny the Younger, The Letters of the Younger Pliny

tags: possession, pursuit

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“So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.”
― Pliny the Younger, The Letters of the Younger Pliny

tags: public-speaking, writing

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“[Pliny the Elder] used to say that “no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it.”
― Pliny the Younger

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