In existographies, Pliny the younger (61-c.113 ACM) (FA:31), not to be confused with his uncle Pliny the elder (23-79AD), was []
Jesus | Silent historians
Pliny the younger’s name often comes up in discussions (Ѻ) of the silent historians problem and or discussions of his c.112 letter to Trajan, wherein he comments (Ѻ), supposedly, on the growing numbers of “Christians”.
Quotes | On
The following are quotes on Pliny the younger:
“There has been a considerable number of those whom history calls ‘atheists’. Leucippus, Democritus, Xenophanes, and others of the Atomistic and Eleatic schools (Ѻ), are said to have been such. In his Intellectual System, Cudworth puts into this category Seneca and the younger Pliny among the Romans. Since the reformation, such men as: Rabelais, Machiavel, Bruno, Vanini, D'Alembert, Diderot, Buffon, Condorcet, Mirabeau, La Place, Frederic II, and even Pope Leo X, have been charged with atheism.” — Willis Lord (1875), Christian Theology for the People (pg. 67)
Quotes | By
The following are noted Pliny the younger quotes:
“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.”
— Pliny the younger (c.100AD)
External links
● Pliny the Younger – Wikipedia.
