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Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 – c. 113), better known as Pliny the Younger (/ˈplɪni/), was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him. Both Pliny the Elder and Younger were witnesses to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, in which the former died.
Pliny wrote hundreds of letters, many of which still survive, that are of great historical value for the time period. Some are addressed to reigning emperors or to notables such as the historian Tacitus. Pliny served as an imperial magistrate under Trajan (reigned 98–117), and his letters to Trajan provide one of the few surviving records of the relationship between the imperial office and provincial governors.
Pliny was considered an honest and moderate man. He rose through a series of Imperial civil and military offices, the cursus honorum. He was a friend of the historian Tacitus and employed the biographer Suetonius on his staff. Pliny also came into contact with other well-known men of the period, including the philosophers Artemidorus and Euphrates the Stoic during his time in Syria.
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i can no longer pretend
lonely as green eyes can get
i'm singing blues
in a room painted yellow with hope
covering plaster and bricks
yes there's no reason to cry dear
things seeming sweet in your eyes
i'm sadder for knowing how i shouldn't be
considering all of the good things around me
but love forgot me when she passed through
seems i wasn't deemed worthy
but i know she'll be around again soon
don't forget me
please don't forget me
but for you the heartache would kill me
you are the first in my heart
and i know that you know what you're doing up there
but in the meantime i'm impatient down here
'cos love forgot me when she passed through
seems i wasn't deemed worthy this early
but i know she'll be around again soon
don't forget me please don't forget