Pliny the Younger
61 CE – 113 CE · aged 52
Roman lawyer, author and magistrate (61 – c.113)
- Born
- 61 CE · Como
- Died
- 113 CE · Bithynia et Pontus
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- 61 CEBornBorn in Como
- c. 90 CERolePraetors
- 100 CERoleConsul suffectus
- c. 100 CERoleQuaestor Augusti
- c. 100 CERoleTribune of the plebs
- 104 CE – 106 CERoleCurator alvei Tiberis et riparum et cloacarum Urbis
- 113 CEDiedDied in Bithynia et Pontus
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Biography
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo; 61 – c. 113), better known in English as Pliny the Younger ( PLIN-ee), was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him.
Pliny the Younger wrote 369 letters, of which 247 survived, and which are of some historical value. These include 121 official letters addressed to Emperor Trajan (reigned 98–117). Some are addressed to reigning emperors or to notables such as the historian Tacitus. Pliny served as an imperial magistrate under Trajan, and his letters to Trajan provide one of the few surviving records of the relationship between the imperial office and provincial governors.
Pliny rose through a series of civil and military offices, the cursus honorum. He was a friend of the historian Tacitus and might have employed the biographer Suetonius on his staff. Pliny also came into contact with other well-known men of the period, including the philosophers Artemidorus and Euphrates the Stoic, during his time in Syria.
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