Author: Pliny the Younger

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• David Gibbins (1)
  • IN: The Last Gospel (None) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: … he perished in a catastrophe which destroyed the loveliest regions of the earth, a fate shared by whole cities and their people, and one so memorable that it is likely to make his name live for ever; and he himself wrote a number of books of lasting value: but you write for all time and can still do much to perpetuate his memory. The fortunate man, in my opinion, is he to whom the gods have granted the power either to do something which is worth recording or to write what is worth reading, and most fortunate of all is the man who can do both …
    FROM: Letter to the historian Tacitus. c. AD 106, (106), Letter, Italy
• Harry Mulisch (1)
  • IN: The Assault (1985) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: By then day had broken everywhere, but here it was still night -- no, more than night.
    FROM: Letters, IV, 16, (1508), Book, Italy
• John Paris (1)
  • IN: Ramillies. A poem, humbly inscrib'd to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough. Written in imitation of Milton. By Mr. Paris of Trinity-College, Cambridge. (1706) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Nec minus considerabo quid aures tuae pati possint, Quam quid virtutibus debeatur.
    FROM: Panegyricus Traiani, (100), Speech, Italy