Note 1545 — Chapter I · PLINY THE YOUNGER AND MINOR CONTEMPORARIES
Reading edition
Text: Paneg. in Panegyrici Lat., Cuspinianus, 1513; Rhenanus, Bas., 1520; Livineius, Antv., 1599; E. Bährens, Lpz., 1874; 2nd ed. W. A. Bährens, 1911; Sep. edns., Ed. pr. (?) 1476; Lipsius, Antv., 1600; Utr., 1652, etc.; Arntzen (not. var.), Amst., 1738; Gierig, Lpz., 1796; Dübner, Par., 1843. Trans.: Stapylton, Oxf., 1644; [White Kennet], Lond., 1686; G. Smith, Lond., 1702; in French, De Sacy, Par., 1722. Epist.: Ed. pr., Ven., 1471 (8 bks., I.-VII. and IX.); 1st compl. ed. Aldus, Ven., 1508; Gruter, 1611; Veenhusen (not. var.), Leid., 1669; Cortius and Longolius (indices), Amst., 1734; E. T. Merrill, Lpz., 1922.
Sep. edns.: I., II., Cowan, Lond., 1889; III., J. E. B. Mayor, Lond., 1880, 1889; VI., J. D. Duff, Camb., 1906; X., E. G. Hardy, Lond., 1889.
Selectns.: Church and Brodribb, Lond., 1870, 1872; Prichard and Bernard, Oxf., 3rd ed., 1896; Merrill, Lond., 1903; Allen, Oxf., 1915.
Trans.: Epistles (w. Paneg.), Henley, Lond., 1724; Letters, Melmoth, Lond., 1746-47-48-57-70-86-1810; Earl of Orrery, Lond., 1751; Lewis, Lond., 1879; Melmoth’s revised, Bosanquet, Lond., 1878, 1892; and Hutchinson (Loeb ed.), Lond. and N. Yk., 1915.
Collected edns.: Boxhorn, Leid., 1653; Gierig, Leipz., 1806; Keil (ed. maior, rerum enarr. Mommseni, etc.), Lpz., 1870; C. F. W. Müller, ib., 1903; Kukula, ib., 1908, 1912.
Life and character: Tanzmann, De C. Pl. Secundi uita ingenio moribus quaestio, Bresl., 1865; Mommsen, Zur Lebensgesch. d. jüng. Pl., Herm., III. 31, 1869 (= Gesam. Schr., IV. 366, 1906); in French, trans. Morel, w. Mommsen’s addns., Par., 1873; Bender, Der jüngere Pl. nach seinen Briefe, Tüb., 1873; Moy, Qualem apud aetatis suae studiosos personam egerit C. Pl. Sec., Par., 1876.
Literary Significance: Held, Ueb. d. Werth d. Briefsammlung d. jüng. Pl. in Bezug auf Geschichte d. röm. Lit., Bresl., 1833; De la Berge, Essai sur le regne de Trajan, esp. ch. xvi., Par., 1877; Allain, Pline le jeune et ses héritiers, 4 vols., Par., 1901-1902. Style: Lagergren, De uita et elocutione C. Pl. Sec., Ups., 1872; Morillot, De Pl. minoris eloquentia, Gren., 1888; Consoli, Il neologismo negli scritti di Pl., Palermo, 1900; Kukula, Briefe d. jüng. Pl. (Intr. includes “Entwickelung d. Epistolographie,” “Sprache u. Stil des Briefes,” etc.), Lpz., 1904; Smiley, Latinitas and Ἑλληνισμός (Influence of Stoic theory on writings of Quintilian, Pliny the Yr., Tacitus, etc.), Wisconsin, 1906.