Pliny the Younger

But let us hear what advice the younger Pliny gives his friend Caninius Rufus upon the subject of solitude:

There are to be gathered out of the writings of Cicero and the younger Pliny (but little, in my opinion, resembling his uncle in his humors) infinite testimonies of a beyond measure ambitious nature;

The younger Pliny can inform such as have not experimented it themselves, how important an impediment this is to those who devote themselves to this employment.

The younger Pliny had near a house of his in Italy a neighbor who was exceedingly tormented with certain ulcers in his private parts.