person
Corellius Rufus
Distinguished consular and Pliny's revered mentor, who ended his own life to escape long illness (Letter 1.12).
Reading notes
- The Letters §1.12.1 Corellius Rufus
Distinguished consular and Pliny's revered mentor, who starved himself to death to escape long, agonizing gout (Letter 1.12).
- The Letters §3.3.1 his mother's father
Corellius Rufus, the distinguished consular and Pliny's revered mentor, the boy's maternal grandfather.
- The Letters §7.11.3 Corellius Rufus
Quintus Corellius Rufus, an elder statesman and mentor of Pliny whose suicide is described in 1.12.