Sunday, September 27, 2020

Pliny the Younger's letter to Tacitus, ref, Vesuvius eruption --


It reads as if it was written yesterday.

The nephew was writing 25 years after the eruption of AD 79.

9-27-2020

 

It wasn't Dickens--as I thought. My brother first told me about them--

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