Pliny the Younger

Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 CE – ca.

112 CE), better known as Pliny the Younger, is a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome.

Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helps raise and educate him.

They are both witnesses to the eruption of Vesuvius on 24 August 79 CE.

Pliny is known for his hundreds of surviving letters, which are an invaluable historical source for the time period.

Many are addressed to reigning emperors or to notables such as the historian, Tacitus.

Pliny himself is a notable figure, serving as an imperial magistrate under Trajan (reigned CE 98–117).

Pliny is considered an honest and moderate man, consistent in his pursuit of suspected Christian members according to Roman law, and rises through a series of Imperial civil and military offices, the cursus honorum.

He is a friend of the historian Tacitus and employs the biographer Suetonius in his staff.

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