The Student's Companion to Latin Authors

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8; vi. 16; vi. 20).
C. Plinius Secundus was born A. D. 23 or 24, for at the time of hisdeath in A. D. 79 he was in his fifty-sixth year (Plin. _Ep. _ iii. 5, 7, 'decessisse anno sexto et quinquagesimo'). His birthplace was Comumin Cisalpine Gaul, according to Sueton. _vit. Plin. _ In an anonymousLife he is styled 'Veronensis, ' probably on account of the phrase in_N. H. _ praef. 1, 'Catullum conterraneum meum, ' where, however, _terra_means Gallia, the province, not the city.
Pliny was the son
...of an _eques_, and had a sister married to L. Caecilius of Novum Comum (see p. 139). He came to Rome not later thanA. D. 35 (_N. H. _ xxxvii. 81, 'Servilii Noniani quem consulem vidimus'), and was trained in poetry and literature, probably by P. PomponiusSecundus[82]; his instructors in rhetoric are not known, but hementions as rhetoricians Remmius Palaemon (xiv. 49) and ArelliusFuscus (xxxiii. 152). In botany he learned much from Antonius Castor(xxv. 9).
At the beginning of the reign of Claudius, Pliny was an eye-witness ofthe building operations at the harbour of Ostia, A.


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