Plinius

Plinius wrote about spells and witches in a superstitious manner. […] But the sort of spell which Plinius talks of, smacking of superstition, is false, contrived and quite impossible in true believers.

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“Welcome, sire!” Vespasian saluted, and after the briefest hesitation Plinius followed his legate’s example, swallowing his distaste for such deference to a mere native, albeit a king of his people.

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Contemporary and employer of Suetonius and friend of Tacitus, Plinius was a highly skilled rhetorician well known for letters rightly dubbed literary classics.

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