person
Pliny the Younger
Pliny
also: Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, C. Plinius
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (c. AD 61–113), senator, orator, and letter-writer, nephew and adoptive son of the elder Pliny. Here the speaker, delivering the gratiarum actio to Trajan as suffect consul in AD 100.
Reading notes
- The Letters §1.5.5 Secundus
Pliny's own cognomen (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus); Regulus addresses him by it.