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- He moved through the regular offices in a senator's career, held two treasury appointments and a priesthood, and was consul in September and October 100. On this occasion he delivered the speech of thanks to the Emperor Trajan which he afterwards expanded and published as the Panegyricus.
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XII Panegyrici Latini or Twelve Latin Panegyrics is the conventional title of a collection of twelve ancient Roman and late antique prose panegyric orations written in Latin. The authors of most of the speeches in the collection are anonymous, but appear to have been Gallic in origin.
The Panegyricus of Plinius Secundus Delivered to The Emperor Trajan. 1. Our ancestors in their wisdom, Conscript Fathers, laid down the excellent rule that a speech no less than a course of action should take its start from prayers: thinking that nothing could be properly and prudently begun by mortal men without the aid and counsel of the ...
Mar 8, 2012 · Already in Fronto’s day, prose panegyric was well established as a literary genre, but Pliny’s authority within this burgeoning tradition was far from absolute. The inclusion of his speech among the late antique collection of XII Panegyrici Latini suggests a privileged status, but Pliny’s influence seems to have derived more from his ...
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Although the authors of most of these panegyrics remain unidentified, they are believed to have been of Gallic origin. The collection opens with a panegyric by Pliny the Younger, penned in AD 100, with the subsequent speeches dating from AD 289 to 389, primarily originating from Gaul.
His panegyric on Trajan (delivered to express his gratitude to the emperor, who had recently appointed him consul) is his only speech which really possessed vitality, and his letters, which exhibit his
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Jun 5, 2011 · On 1 September 100 ce, Pliny the Younger rose in the senate to deliver the oration we know as the Panegyricus. This was a gratiarum actio, a ‘vote of thanks’, offered up to the emperor Trajan (98–117).
Pliny claims as the pretext for his speech a senatus consultum which had recommended that a vote of thanks be rendered to the emperor by the consuls (Pan.., cf..; Ep..., ..). In the speech and in his letters, Pliny immediately subjoins to this recommendation a normative aim: to demonstrate through praise the behaviour and characteristics ...
