Note 1561 — Chapter I · PLINY THE YOUNGER AND MINOR CONTEMPORARIES

Such is Wilcken’s view, Herm., xlix. (1914), in opposition to Mommsen, who placed Pliny’s visit to the eastern parts of the province in the latter half of his first year. Wilcken thinks that in late autumn of 112 Pliny took ship to Sinope, and that after this he wrote from Amisus the famous letter touching the trial of Christians.