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Often appears with: tacitus · scipio africanus · pliny the elder death · plague, famine, and mass death · naval warfare and sea power · mourning and grief · hospitality and the guest · eruption of vesuvius · endurance of grief · courage and cowardice · cornelia · conquest, plunder, and captives
Usually: reverence (2) · narrative (1) · reflection (1) · confronting death (1) · grief and loss (1) · the fall of the great (1) · nostalgia (1) · wonder (1)
“Happy I esteem those to be to whom by provision of the gods has been granted the ability either to do such actions as are worthy of being related or to relate them in a manner worthy of being read; but peculiarly happy are they who are blessed with both these uncommon talents.” Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus), Letters of Pliny · insight
Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, responds with dignified endurance, eventually living near Misenum while hosting Greeks and recalling her father Scipio Africanus; Plutarch praises noble character for bearing misfortune reasonably.
everything, according to the season of the year, to make their offerings. Many came likewise thither to their devotions, and daily worshipped there, as at the temples of the gods. It is reported, that as Cornelia, their mother, bore the loss of her two sons with a noble and undaunted spirit, so, in reference to the holy places in which they were slain, she said, their dead bodies were well worthy of such sepulchres.…
Pliny writes Tacitus to request that he record Pliny the Elder’s death at Misenum during the eruption of Vesuvius, describing how he went by sea to aid people near the burning coast.
LXV -- To TACITUS YOUR request that I would send you an account of my uncle's death, in order to transmit a more exact relation of it to posterity, deserves my acknowledgments; for, if this accident shall be celebrated by your pen, the glory of it, I am well assured, will be rendered forever illustrious. And notwithstanding he perished by a misfortune, which, as it involved at the same time a most beautiful country …