Excerpt from The Letters of Pliny the Consul, Vol. 2: With Occasional Remarks The nurses of the ancients were looked upon as a kind of second parent, and treated accordingly. In the early age of Homer, we find Euryclea, the nurse of Ulysses, re resented as a woman of remarkable prudence, she bears a considera lo part in the Odyssey, and her name always appears to advantage. Virgil, a in, has bestowed an eternal monument upon the nurse of Aeneas; e begins his seventh book to her memory.' (orrery.) 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.