Note 1638 — Chapter I · PLINY THE YOUNGER AND MINOR CONTEMPORARIES
Reading edition
Merrill, ed. 1922, praef., half allows the possibility (“nisi fortasse”) that Einhart’s “mortalitatem magis quam uitam uidebam esse finitam” is based on Plin., II. i. 10, as Manitius thinks, Gesch. d. lat. Lit. des Mittelalters, 1911, p. 644.