biography
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Pliny (the Younger)
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in full Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.62–c.114)
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| biography:
| Roman writer and administrator, born in Novum Comum (now Como), Gaul, the nephew and adopted son of Pliny the Elder. He became a lawyer and a highly proficient orator, much in demand. He served as a military tribune in Syria, and progressed to be quaestor, praetor, and (100) consul, holding several posts throughout the empire. He was the master of epistolary style, his many letters providing an insight into the life of the upper class in the 1st-c. His letters written as governor of Bithynia in present-day Turkey contain some of the earliest pagan accounts of Christians. |
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