Pliny the Younger

Pliny the Younger ( Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus ) ( AD 62 – c. 112 ),
Roman letter writer, nephew of the above. The vogue for letter writing in the 1690s led to the translation of some of his correspondence, and William Melmoth produced a full but inaccurate version in 1746 . Pliny was a more formal writer than Cicero , and is remembered mainly for his description of the eruption of Vesuvius and his official correspondence with Trajan.