Excerpt from The Letters of Pliny the Consul, Vol. 1: With Occasional Remarks Plin Y may be considered in these Letters as writing his own memoirs; every epistle is a kind of historical sketch, where in we have a View of him in some striking attitude, either of active or contemplative life. And if that were his real design in their publication, he could not, it should seem have taken a more agreeable, or, perhaps, a more modest method of trans mitting himself to posterity. To enter, therefore, into a detail concerning him, would be only anticipating the author him self, and amusing the reader with a copy, while the original stands before him. Nothing seems requisite to be farther added to the piece, than just to mark the date. Pliny was born in the reign of nero. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.