C. Plinii Caecilii Secundi Epistulae ad Traianum imperatorem cum eiusdem responsis |
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... senatorial , rank . There was no school at Comum in Pliny's boyhood , 11 but no doubt good teachers were procured , and at any rate Pliny wrote a Greek tragedy at the age of fourteen.1 His father died while he was still a boy , and ...
... senatorial , rank . There was no school at Comum in Pliny's boyhood , 11 but no doubt good teachers were procured , and at any rate Pliny wrote a Greek tragedy at the age of fourteen.1 His father died while he was still a boy , and ...
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... senatorial rank before , he must have been previously promoted by the emperor , 1 one of the ' decemviri stlitibus iudicandis , ' 2 one of the minor magistracies ( vigintiviratus ) regularly held before the quaestor- ship , and which ...
... senatorial rank before , he must have been previously promoted by the emperor , 1 one of the ' decemviri stlitibus iudicandis , ' 2 one of the minor magistracies ( vigintiviratus ) regularly held before the quaestor- ship , and which ...
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... senatorial order , and Pliny's position was not altogether unaffected by it . During his praetorship he had for the first time taken part in a political trial before the senate , 1 vii 16 , 2 . 2 i 23 ; Panegyr . 95 . 3 vii 18 , 2 . 4 ...
... senatorial order , and Pliny's position was not altogether unaffected by it . During his praetorship he had for the first time taken part in a political trial before the senate , 1 vii 16 , 2 . 2 i 23 ; Panegyr . 95 . 3 vii 18 , 2 . 4 ...
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... senatorial career . In distinction from his uncle , he is usually known as Pliny the Consul , but the Pliny whom we know from his letters is much more the generous friend , the enthusiastic man of letters , the amiable patron , and the ...
... senatorial career . In distinction from his uncle , he is usually known as Pliny the Consul , but the Pliny whom we know from his letters is much more the generous friend , the enthusiastic man of letters , the amiable patron , and the ...
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... senatorial dignity , he had no fruitless longings for a political liberty and independence which might add to that dignity a more than nominal power , and pure and humane as his private life undoubtedly was , he had no objection to a ...
... senatorial dignity , he had no fruitless longings for a political liberty and independence which might add to that dignity a more than nominal power , and pure and humane as his private life undoubtedly was , he had no objection to a ...
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Popular passages
Page 214 - Adfirmabant autem hanc fuisse summam vel culpae suae vel erroris, quod essent soliti stato die ante lucem convenire carmenque Christo quasi deo dicere secum invicem seque sacramento non in scelus aliquod obstringere, sed ne furta, ne latrocinia, ne adulteria committerent, ne fidem fallerent, ne depositum appellati abnegarent.
Page 54 - Ergo abolendo rumori Nero subdidit reos et quaesitissimis poenis adfecit, quos per flagitia invisos vulgus Christianos appellabat. Auctor nominis eius Christus Tiberio imperitante per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum supplicio adfectus erat...
Page 215 - Visa est enim mihi res digna consultatione, maxime propter periclitantium numerum. Multi enim omnis aetatis, omnis ordinis, utriusque sexus etiam, vocantur in periculum, et vocabuntur. Neque civitates tantum, sed vicos etiam atque agros superstitionis istius contagio pervagata est : quae videtur sisti et corrigi posse.
Page 214 - ... stato die ante lucem convenire, carmenque Christo, quasi deo, dicere secum invicem, seque sacramento non in scelus aliquod obstringere. sed ne furta, ne latrocinia, ne adulteria committerent, ne fidem fallerent, ne depositum appellati abnegarent: quibus peractis morem sibi discedendi fuisse, rursusque coeundi ad capiendum cibum, promiscuum tamen, et innoxium : quod ipsum facere desisse post edictum meum, quo secundum mandata tua hetaerias esse vetueram.
Page 212 - Interim in iis, qui ad me tamquam Christi5 ani deferebantur, hunc sum secutus modum. Interrogavi ipsos, an essent Christiani. Confitentes iterum ac tertio interrogavi, supplicium minatus: perseverantes duci iussi. Neque enim dubitabam, qualecumque esset, quod faterentur, pertinaciam certe et inflexibilem obstinationem debere puniri.
Page 212 - Nec mediocriter haesitavi, sitne aliquod discrimen aetatum, an quamlibet teneri nihil a robustioribus differant, detur paenitentiae venia, an ei, qui omnino Christianus fuit, desisse non prosit, nomen ipsum, si flagitiis careat, an flagitia cohaerentia nomini puniantur.
Page 213 - Propositus est libellus sine auctore multorum nomina continens. Qui negabant esse se Christianos aut fuisse, cum praeeunte me deos appellarent et imagini tuae, quam propter hoc iusseram cum simulacris numinum adferri, ture 15 ac vino supplicarent, praeterea male dicerent Christo, quorum nihil posse cogi dicuntur, qui sunt re vera Christiani, dimittendos esse putavi.
Page 54 - ... et pereuntibus addita ludibria, ut ferarum tergis contecti laniatu canum interirent aut crucibus adfixi [aut flammandi atque], ubi defecisset dies, in usu[m] nocturni luminis urerentur.
Page 53 - And he abode two whole years in his own hired dwelling, and 31 received all that went in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, none forbidding him.