Pline le Jeune - Panegyrique de Trajan -
Pline le jeune panegyrique de trajan en un volume complet publié à Paris par Maureau rue saint Jacques Collation: 275 pages - full leather binding of the time - format 10 x 18 cm good condition:Le Panégyrique de Trajan is a speech in prose of Pline le Jeune in 95 chapters, composed on the occasion of his appointment to the Roman Senate by the Emperor Trajan in 100. The original, pronounced speech before the Assembly, is definitely much shorter than that, reworked and increased, published presumably around and came to us. Of course, Trajan occupies most of the speech. In the direct praise in the second singular person and in the stories where the Emperor appears, Pline portrays an emperor under the reign of which freedom flourishes, after that of Domitian. In all events the political news mentioned (first sitting of the Senate in 100, ceremony of the comitia, trial of Marius Priscus), the Emperor, sincere and modest, is the object of the love of his subjects who see in him the return of justice. Read More