Excerpt from The Letters of the Younger Pliny: Literally Translated
I have followed Keil's text, but not servilely. When a reading differing from his has been adopted, the difl'er enoe has commonly been referred to in a note. The notes are merely such as are absolutely necessary to make the English text intelligible to the, reader.
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Pliny (c. AD 61-113), a prominent lawyer and administrator, was also a prolific letter-writer.
Betty Radice was an honorary fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford and vice-president of the Classical Association. She was a renowned translator of both Latin and Greek.
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