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A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c. AD 61-113) was also a
prolific letter-writer, who numbered among his correspondents such
eminent figures as Tacitus, Suetonius and the Emperor Trajan, as well as
a wide circle of friends and family. His lively and very personal
letters address an astonishing range of topics, from a deeply moving
account of his uncle's death in the eruption that engulfed Pompeii, to
observations on the early Christians - 'a desperate sort of cult carried
to extravagant lengths' - from descriptions of everyday life in Rome,
with its scandals and court cases, to Pliny's life in the country.
A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c. AD 61-113) was also a
prolific letter-writer.
Betty Radice was an honorary fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford
and vice-president of the Classical Association. She was a renowned
translator of both Latin and Greek.
