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Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 – c. 113), better known as Pliny the Younger (/ˈplɪni/), was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him. Pliny the Younger wrote hundreds of letters,
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Pliny the Younger was born in Novum Comum (Como, Northern Italy) around 61 CE, the son of Lucius Caecilius Cilo, born there, and his wife Plinia Marcella, a sister of Pliny the Elder...
See morePliny was by birth of equestrian rank, that is, a member of the aristocratic order of equites (knights), the lower (beneath the senatorial order)
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See moreBeing wealthy, Pliny owned many villas and wrote in detail about his villa near Ostia, at Laurentum, Italy. Others were the one in Lake Como named
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See more• Bell, Albert A. (1989). "A Note on Revision and Authenticity in Pliny's Letters". American Journal of Philology. 110 (3): 460–466. doi:10.2307/295220. JSTOR 295220.
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