9 surviving letters between Caninius Rufus and Pliny the Younger, spanning 100-107 AD.
How is Comum looking, your darling spot and mine?
Are you at your books, or are you fishing, or hunting, or doing all three together?
News has just come that Silius Italicus * has starved himself to death at his villa near Neapolis.
I had gone down to the Basilica Julia to listen to the speeches of the counsel to whom I had to reply from the last...
I am one of those who admire the ancients, but not to the extent of despising the genius of our own times, like some...
You ask me how the money which you have given to our fellow-townsmen for an annual feast may be secured after you...
Alas ! how many learned men there are who are buried out of sight and lost to fame either through their own modesty...
You are doing quite right to get together materials for a history of the Dacian War.
I have come upon a true story - though it sounds very like a fable - which is quite worthy of engaging the attention...