Excerpt from Selections Illustrative of Roman Life From the Letters of Pliny: Adapted for the Use of Beginners, With Vocabulary and Notes

The Letters of Pliny are among the most interesting records we have of Roman life in the first century A.D. Pliny was born in 61 A.D., of a wealthy and honourable family at Comum. on the Lacus Larius, now the Lago di Como. He is commonly called the younger Pliny, to distinguish him from his uncle, the elder Pliny, the celebrated author of the Historia Naturalis. He lost his father early, and the famous Verginius Rufus, who three times refused the imperial purple, became his guardian. His uncle by his will made him his adopted son, and he then assumed the name Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus. His name had previously been Publius Caecilius Secundus. His boyhood was passed in retirement at Como during the reigns of Nero, Galba, Otho, and Vitellius. On the accession of Vespasian he accompanied his uncle to Rome, where he finished his education and attended the lectures of the celebrated rhetorician Quintilian.

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