Letters of Pliny
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Introduction
5:45 -
Letters 1-7
32:09 -
Letters 8-14
35:57 -
Letters 15-21
30:25 -
Letters 22-25
30:24 -
Letters 26-31
30:27 -
Letters 32-39
28:29 -
Letters 40-49
32:46 -
Letters 50-53
33:28 -
Letters 54-64
33:08 -
Letters 65-66
21:23 -
Letters 67-76
36:22 -
Letters 77-83
34:41 -
Letters 84-89
33:22 -
Letters 90-96
29:41 -
Letters 97-105
32:46 -
Letters 106-110
26:06 -
Letters T1-27
28:56 -
Letters T28-51
27:50 -
Letters T52-70
21:13 -
Letters T71-96
24:17 -
Letters T97-98
7:50 -
Letters T99-122
19:32
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A sale of inherited property becomes a test of friendship in these letters from a Roman lawyer and public official. Pliny explains why he accepts an arrangement made by his freedman Hermes, then answers Corellia when she offers a higher price. Such exchanges show how money, obligations and personal regard meet in the ordinary business of his life. Other letters in the collection range across country houses, social occasions and relations with the emperor Trajan.
The correspondence also reveals a writer thinking carefully about his audience. In a letter to Celer, Pliny defends reading speeches aloud as a way to discover faults and improve them. He describes revisions made alone, comments sought from friends and a final reading before a larger gathering. These English translations offer readers an account of Roman public and private life through individual concerns, while preserving the arguments and courtesies of letters addressed to particular people.
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- the Younger Pliny
- Genre
- Ancient History
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- Andrew Coleman