Pliny the Younger
quoted 4 times by 4 works · an author the library holds
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Institutes of Roman Law Gaius 1 neutral 1 citation
Corresponds to the citation of Pliny's Epistulae.
Pliny, Ep.
ch. 101 ¶ -
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum) Hugo Grotius 1 citation
Matches the Pliny the Younger Epistulae citation.
Epistulae I, 1, 44–45.
letter ii ¶ -
The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 citation
Corresponds to the Pliny citation.
Pliny says that the Christians bound themselves by an oath to commit neither theft, nor robbery, nor to violate their word.
chapter xx.: on punishments. ¶ -
Apologeticum Tertullian 1 neutral 1 citation
Pliny's report to Trajan is cited to describe Christian rites and discipline.
For Pliny the Younger, when he was governing his province and had condemned certain Christians and degraded others from their rank, was so disturbed by their very numbers that he consulted the emperor Trajan as to what he should do thereafter, alleging that, apart from their obstinacy in not sacrificing, he had discovered nothing else about their rites than that they held meetings before dawn to s …
apologeticum ¶
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