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The Language of Pliny the Elder

2005
This chapter suggests that long sentences need not be ‘periods’. It also aims to take Pliny seriously in his own right and shows a few characteristics of his language in the light of his general aims. Pliny’s work covers a broad range of topics, some of which were more accessible for his audience than others, some of which were known in more detail in ...
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PLINY ON ESSENES, PLINY ON JEWS

Dead Sea Discoveries, 2001
A key passage in the discussion of ancient tEssenest is Pliny the Elder's description in Natural History 5.73. Pliny claims that his subject matter is "sterile" - the nature of things, real life - compared to more entertaining works that aff ord opportunity for digressions (excessus) or orations and discourses or wondrous occurrences (casus mirabiles ...
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Silenced Intertext: Pliny on Martial on Pliny (on Regulus)

American Journal of Philology, 2013
Going beyond the explicit dialogue between Epistle 3.21, by Pliny on Martial, and Epigram 10.19(20), by Martial on Pliny, this paper discusses a range of peripheral texts addressing issues of political patronage ( Epistle 1.5, in the context of Epigrams 1.12 and 1.82), social customs ( Epistle 4.2 and 4.
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Pliny's Praise

2011
Pliny's Panegyricus (AD 100) survives as a unique example of senatorial rhetoric from the early Roman Empire. It offers an eyewitness account of the last years of Domitian's principate, the reign of Nerva and Trajan's early years, and it communicates a detailed senatorial view on the behaviour expected of an emperor.
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Isauria in Pliny

Anatolian Studies, 1986
I. The Isaurians escaped notice for long centuries. They first come to mention in an episode of the year 322 B.C. when Perdiccas after subduing Cappadocia captured their city, described as strong and populous, of ancient opulence. Isaurians next emerge in the campaign that earned a triumphal cognomen for P. Servilius Vatia (cos.
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Tacitus And Pliny

1990
Abstract With Cornelius Tacitus (c AD 56-c ad 115) we come to a great master of historical prose; but he was also a celebrated orator, and our first extract illustrates his interest in literary ideals. It comes from the Dialogus de oratoribus (c AD 100, but dramatic date ad 74), probably the best ‘dialogue’ in Latin literature.
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Pliny the writer

2000
Abstract The deterioration in the political situation during the first century AD inevitably had far-reaching consequences on the content and character of the literature of the period. This resulted from opposition to imperial rule, the basis of which apparently lay in a sentimentalized view of the Republic, and in a concept less ...
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Pliny the Younger

2020
AbstractWithin a century of his death, the Younger Pliny was already being confused with his famous uncle, the Elder Pliny. In the 1300s, the two were successfully disentangled, although the error of their origin in Verona (rather than Como) was spread.
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