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General SummaryPLINY (about 61–113 A. D.), called the Younger, to distinguish him from his famous uncle, the Elder Pliny, was a Roman gentleman fitted by birth and education for a brilliant public career. He filled many offices of state, traveled extensively, knew everybody worth knowing, and lived a happy, useful life, surrounded by his books and his friends. Of his letters more than three hundred have been preserved. They do not rise to a very high level as literature; Pliny’s letters seem stilted and artificial when compared with the animated correspondence of Cicero. But there are few works by ancient authors which make pleasanter reading. Moreover, they afford us an attractive picture of Roman society during the most interesting period of the Early Empire.
104. Pliny to His Wife Calpurnia1
You say that you are quite distressed at my absence, and that your only solace is to embrace my writings instead of me, and constantly to put them in the place I am wont to occupy. I am glad you miss me, and glad, too, that you find comfort in such consolations. I, in my turn, continually read over your letters, and take them up again and again as though they were new ones. Yet this only makes me feel your absence the more keenly, for if your letters have such a charm for me, you can imagine how sweet I find your conversation. However, do not fail to write as often as you can, even though your letters torture as well as delight me.
1 Pliny, , vi, 7.
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Chicago: "Pliny to His Wife Calpurnia," Letters in Readings in Early European History, ed. Webster, Hutton (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1926), Original Sources, accessed December 4, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=FKQJXAL7NQJJYL4.
MLA: . "Pliny to His Wife Calpurnia." Letters, Vol. vi, in Readings in Early European History, edited by Webster, Hutton, Boston, Ginn and Company, 1926, Original Sources. 4 Dec. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=FKQJXAL7NQJJYL4.
Harvard: , 'Pliny to His Wife Calpurnia' in Letters. cited in 1926, Readings in Early European History, ed. , Ginn and Company, Boston. Original Sources, retrieved 4 December 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=FKQJXAL7NQJJYL4.
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