Pliny the Younger in the library

5 works in the library quote Pliny the Younger — 5 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

through Pliny the Younger 4 citations · Letters 1 citation

Hugo Grotius 2 citations · Gaius 1 citation · Suetonius 1 citation · Tertullian 1 citation

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1. Institutes of Roman Law Gaius 1 neutral 1 citation

   ch. 101

   Cited as a further reading cross-reference on inheritance litigation.

   (2) If a child was disinherited without a cause, or received less than one fourth, either as heir or legatee, of what his share would have been by intestate descent (portio legitima), he could by impeaching the will as immoral or unnatural (querela inofficiosi testamenti) have it set aside on the fictitious presumption of the testator’s insanity.

2. The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum) Hugo Grotius 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

   letter ii 2 passages anchored here

   Directly cited with a translation note.

   Letters I, 1, 44–45 [Francis’s translation, English Poets XIX, 726].

3. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 authority 1 citation

   chapter xx.: on punishments.

   Explicitly cited by name as reporting the Christians' oath.

   Pliny says that the Christians bound themselves by an oath to commit neither theft, nor robbery, nor to violate their word.

4. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars Suetonius 1 authority 1 citation

   preface.

   Pliny's letters are explicitly cited as the primary external evidence for Suetonius's personal qualities and life

   Several of the younger Pliny’s letters are addressed to Suetonius, with whom he lived in the closest friendship.

5. Apologeticum Tertullian 1 neutral 1 citation

   apologeticum

   Tertullian cites Pliny's report to Trajan as documentary evidence of Christian conduct.

   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 …