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Pliny the Younger

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Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo , better known as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him and they were both witnesses to the eruption of Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD.

"You would have heard the wails of women, the shrieks of infants, shouts of men; some were seeking parents with their voices, others children, others spouses, and by their voices they were recognizing them; some were pitying their own misfortune, others the misfortune of their families; there were those who - due to the fear of death - were praying for death; many raised their hands toward the gods, more were concluding that there were no gods anywhere, and that this was the perpetual and final night for the world."

-Pliny the Younger, Letters, 16.20.14-15

Pliny the Younger

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Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo , better known as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him and they were both witnesses to the eruption of Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD.

"You would have heard the wails of women, the shrieks of infants, shouts of men; some were seeking parents with their voices, others children, others spouses, and by their voices they were recognizing them; some were pitying their own misfortune, others the misfortune of their families; there were those who - due to the fear of death - were praying for death; many raised their hands toward the gods, more were concluding that there were no gods anywhere, and that this was the perpetual and final night for the world."

-Pliny the Younger, Letters, 16.20.14-15

Books from Pliny the Younger

The Letters of the Younger Pliny

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The Historians of Ancient Rome: An Anthology of the Major Writings

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Letters, Volume I: Books 1-7

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Fifty Letters of Pliny

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De Vesuvius in vlammen

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Libro de fantasmas

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The Haunted Omnibus

An Ancient Ghost Story

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Complete Works of Pliny the Younger

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Plinius nuorempi: kirjeitä keisariajan Roomasta

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Selections from Pliny's Letters

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Genç Plinius'un Anadolu Mektupları

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Short Ghost and Horror Collection 002

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Pliny: Correspondence with Trajan from Bithynia: Epistles X, 15-121

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Epistles Book II

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Epistolario - Panegirico a Traiano

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LibriVox Short Ghost and Horror Collection 022

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Epistularum Libri Novem. Epistularum Ad Traianum Liber. Panegyricus.

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Anecdotes from Pliny's Letters;