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Pliny the Younger

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Noun1.Pliny the Younger - Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the ElderPliny the Younger - Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62-113)


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4% and rising, Mervyn King will be writing more letters than Pliny the Younger and Henry Root combined.
Pliny the Younger, who witnessed the eruption, likened the cloud from the volcano to a pine tree: "It rose into the sky on a very long 'trunk' from which spread some 'branches'.
There, from the fifteenth century forward, explicitly revived ideas (and ideals) of otium and negotium limned a contrast between restorative rural pleasures and enervating urban pressures powerfully articulated by ancient Roman writers, among them Pliny the Younger and Cicero.
 
 
 
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