Abstract
ABSTRACTEpistles8.14, one of Pliny's longest letters, has been widely dismissed as a clumsy combination of two ill-fitting stretches of prose. This article demonstrates a significant chain of allusions in the letter's opening to Tacitus’Agricola, as well as to Cicero, Ovid and Seneca; it shows how Pliny prompts such a reading in the surroundingEpistles8.13 and 8.15; and, through consideration of the diptych form and the theme of slavery, it demonstrates the letter's pivotal role as centrepiece to Book 8.
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