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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS, usually known as
Pliny the Younger, was born at Como in 62 A. D. He was only
eight years old when his father Caecilius died, and he was adopted
by his uncle, the elder Pliny, author of the Natural History. He was
carefully educated, studying rhetoric under Quintilian and other
famous teachers, and he became the most eloquent pleader of his
time. In this and in much else he imitated Cicero, who had by this
time come to be the recognized master of Latin style. While still
young he served as military tribune in Syria, but he does not seem
to have taken zealously to a soldier s life. On his return he entered
politics under the Emperor Domitian; and in the year 100 A. D.
was appointed consul by Trajan and admitted to confidential
intercourse with that emperor. Later while he was governor of
Bithynia, he was in the habit of submitting every point of policy to
his master, and the correspondence between Trajan and him,
which forms the last part of the present selection, is of a high
degree of interest, both on account of the subjects discussed and
for the light thrown on the characters of the two men. He is
supposed to have died about 113 A. D. Pliny's speeches are now
lost, with the exception of one, a panegyric on Trajan delivered in
thanksgiving for the consulate. This, though diffuse and somewhat
too complimentary for modern taste, became a model for this kind
of composition. The others were mostly of two classes, forensic
and political, many of the latter being, like Cicero's speech against
Verres, impeachments of provincial governors for cruelty and
extortion toward their subjects. in these, as in his public activities
in general, he appears as a man of public spirit and integrity; and
in his relations with his native town he was a thoughtful and
munificent benefactor.

The letters, on which to-day his fame mainly rests, were largely
written with a view to publication, and were arranged by Pliny
himself. They thus lack the spontaneity of Cicero s impulsive
utterances, but to most modern readers who are not special
students of Roman history they are even more interesting. They
deal with a great variety of subjects: the description of a Roman
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Chapters: Alessandro Volta, Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Pope Innocent Xi, Max Papis, Gianluca Zambrotta, Floraleda Sacchi, Gabriele Oriali, Anna Cappellini, Stefano Ticozzi, Nicolò Carandini, Angelo Michele Colonna, Giambattista Nolli, Massimo Mutarelli, Antonio Sant'elia, Paolo Sammarco, Manlio Rho, Nicolas Giani, Mario Radice, Marco Mallus, Manuela Dalla Valle, Amantius of Como, Stefano Botta, Giuseppe Pontiggia, Francesco Pasquale Ricci, Liliana Ronchetti, Carolina Ferni, Paola Tagliabue, Gianni Clerici, Massimo Vitali, Tommaso Malvito, Giovanna Almeida Leto, Antonio Sacchi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 137. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 CE August 25, 79), better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian. Spending most of his spare time studying, writing or investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field, he wrote an encyclopedic work, Naturalis Historia, which became a model for all such works written subsequently. Pliny the Younger, his nephew, wrote of him in a letter to the historian For my part I deem those blessed to whom, by favour of the gods, it has been granted either to do what is worth writing of, or to write what is worth reading; above measure blessed those on whom both gifts have been conferred. In the latter number will be my uncle, by virtue of his own and of your compositions. Pliny is referring to the fact that Tacitus relied on his uncle's now missing work on the History of the German Wars. Pliny the Elder died on August 25, 79 CE, while attempting the rescue by ship of a friend and his family from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that had just destroyed the cities...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=44920 ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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An Excerpt from the book-

The Morgan fragment of Pliny the Younger contains the end of Book II
and the beginning of Book III of the _Letters_ (II, xx. 13-III, v. 4).
The fragment consists of six vellum leaves, or twelve pages, which
apparently formed part of a gathering or quire of the original volume.

The leaves measure 11-3/8 by 7 inches (286 x 180 millimeters); the
written space measures 7-1/4 by 4-3/8 inches (175 x 114 millimeters);
outer margin, 1-7/8 inches (50 millimeters); inner, 3/4 inch (18
millimeters); upper margin, 1-3/4 inches (45 millimeters); lower,
2-1/4 inches (60 millimeters).

The vellum is well prepared and of medium thickness. The leaves are
bound in a modern pliable vellum binding with three blank vellum
fly-leaves in front and seven in back, all modern. On the inside of the
front cover is the book-plate of John Pierpont Morgan, showing the
Morgan arms with the device: _Onward and Upward_. Under the book-plate
is the press-mark M.462.


[Sidenote: _Ruling_]

There are twenty-seven horizontal lines to a page and two vertical
bounding lines. The lines were ruled with a hard point on the flesh
side, each opened sheet being ruled separately: 48v and 53r, 49r and
52v, 50v and 51r. The horizontal lines were guided by knife-slits made
in the outside margins quite close to the text space; the two vertical
lines were guided by two slits in the upper margin and two in the lower.
The horizontal lines were drawn across the open sheets and extended
occasionally beyond the slits, more often just beyond the perpendicular
bounding lines. The written space was kept inside the vertical bounding
lines except for the initial letter of each epistle; the first letter of
the address and the first letter of the epistle proper projected into
the left margin. Here and there the scribe transgressed beyond the
bounding line. On the whole, however, he observed the limits and seemed
to prefer to leave a blank before the bounding line rather than to crowd
the syllable into the space or go beyond the vertical line.
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:iudicem, sub Domitiano, Salvii Liberalis accusatoribus adfuisset. Damnatus et in insulam relegatus est. Itaque 3-1 cum Castam accusarem, nihil magis pressi, quam quod accusator eius praevaricationis ermine corruisset. Pressi tamen frustra: accidit enim res contraria et nova, ut, accusatore praevaricationis damnato, rea absolveretur. Quaeris, quid nos, dum haec aguntur ? Indicavimus 35 senatui, ex Norbano didicisse nos publicam causam, rursusque debere ex integro discere, si ille praevari- cator probaretur; atque ita, dum ille peragitur reus, sedimus: postea Norbanus omnibus diebus cognitionis interfuit, eandemque usque ad extremum vel constan- tiam vel audaciam pertulit. Interrogo ipse me, an 3(i aliquid omiserim rursus : et rursus paene omisi. Summo die Salvius Liberalis reliquos legates graviter increpuit, tanquam non omnes, quos mandasset provincia, reos peregissent, atque, ut est vehemens et disertus, in dis- crimen adduxit. Protexi viros optimos, eosdemque gratissimos; mihi certe debere se praedicant, quod ilium turbinem evaserint. Hie erit epistolae finis, re 37 vera finis : literam non addam ; etiamsi adhuc aliquid praeterisse me sensero. Vale.A. XIV. (iv. 9.)[The subject of this letter is the impeachment of Julius Bassus and his defence by Pliny. Bassus is described as a man whom misfortunes had made famous. After long delays, he had been acquitted of charges brought against him in the reign of Vespasian; he was, however, subsequently banished by Domitian, but recalled by Nerva, under whom he became governor of Bithynia. Here his ill-fortune pursued him, and he was charged by the province with various corrupt practices. His accusers, it appears, were determined to press the case against him, and Bassus, fearing the worst, instructed Pliny to conduct the principal p... ... Read more

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The Letters of the Younger Pliny has been translated, with an introductory essay, by John B. Firth. The Teubner text, edited by Keil, has been followed for this translation. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 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, the day of the elder's death. Pliny is known for his hundreds of surviving letters, which are an invaluable historical source for the period. Many are to reigning emperors or to notables such as the historian, Tacitus. Pliny himself was a notable figure, serving as an imperial magistrate under Trajan. Pliny was considered an honest and moderate man and rose through a series of Imperial civil and military offices, the cursus honorum. He was a friend of the historian Tacitus and employed the biographer Suetonius in his staff. Pliny also came into contact with many other well-known men of the period, including the philosophers Artemidorus and Euphrates during his time in Syria. ... Read more

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Translator names not noted above: E.S. Shuckburgh, William Melmoth, F.C.T. BosanquetOriginally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf.Volume IX features:• three works by Roman philosopher MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO (106 BC-43 BC): the dialogue On Friendship, a timeless consideration of that happy state; the essay On Old Age, his reflections on aging and death; and his Letters, including his thoughts on matters both personal and political• the Letters of Roman lawyer PLINY THE YOUNGER (61-c. 112), which remain some of the most valuable firsthand documents we have of the period, particularly since he moved in politically important circles; the letters include his eyewitness account of the disastrous eruption of Mount Vesuvius. ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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Chapters: Julius Caesar, Ovid, Pliny the Younger, Virgil, Vitruvius, Horace, Lucretius, Plautus, Seneca the Younger, Terence, Marcus Manilius, Lucan, Aulus Gellius, Quintilian, Martial, Ennius, Statius, Sextus Julius Frontinus, Gaius Julius Hyginus, Tibullus, Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, Appendix Vergiliana, Juvenal, Livius Andronicus, Martianus Capella, Nigidius Figulus, Persius, Phaedrus, Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, Pontius of Carthage, Gaius Marius Victorinus, Marcus Terentius Varro, Arnobius, Double Heroides, de Aquaeductu, Alfenus Varus, Aulus Cornelius Celsus, Publius Rutilius Rufus, Appius Claudius Caecus, Cornelius Nepos, Cornificia, Sulpicia, Aulus Hirtius, Marcus Antistius Labeo, Commodianus, Julius Obsequens, Columella, Alphius Avitus, Publilius Syrus, Censorinus, Marcus Minucius Felix, Aggenus Urbicus, Paolo Cerrati, Orientius, Fenestella, Gaius Matius, Grattius, Symphosius, Aulus Cremutius Cordus, Quintus Antistius Labeo, Alcimus Alethius, Caesius Bassus, Decimus Laberius, Aulus Caecina Severus, Scribonius Largus, Siculus Flaccus, Quintus Gargilius Martialis, Aufidius Namusa, Licinius Macer, Cornelius Severus, Vibius Sequester, Pelagonius, Hyginus Gromaticus, Malachy of Ireland, Titus Quinctius Atta, Aelius Festus Aphthonius, Master Patrick of Ireland. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 395. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gaius Julius Cæsar/Caesar (Classical Latin: ; English: ; 13 July 100 BC 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. As a politician, Caesar made use of popularist tactics. During the late 60s and into the 50s BC, he formed political alliances that led to the so-called First Triumvirate, an extra-legal arrang...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15924 ... Read more