![]() ![]() ![]() Cicero lived in extremely turbulent times and was right at the centre of events, a personal friend of Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great, Brutus and other key players in the political crises which led to the civil war of 49 BC. The letters of Pliny the Younger (61 to around 113 AD) are as famous as those if Cicero (106 to 43 BC) but different. (Opening of the first letter in Pliny’s Collected Letters) The letters of Cicero ![]() I have now assembled them without maintaining chronological sequence, for I was not compiling a history, but as each happened to come to hand.” “On numerous occasions you have urged me to assemble and to publish such letters as I had composed with some care. Gaius Pliny sends greetings to his friend Septicius Clarus ![]()
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