AN ECLECTIC LIBRARY.

Pliny the Younger.


Loeb Edition.

Pliny: Letters. With an English translation by William Melmoth. Revised by W. M. L. Hutchinson.

Vol. I.
Another copy.
Another copy.

Vol. II.
Another copy.


Latin Texts.

C. Plinii Caecilii Secundi Epistrolarum Libri Decem et Panegyricus. Ex recensione et cum adnotationibus perpetuis Io. Matthiae Gesnery, quibus Io. Michaelis Heusingeri, Io. Christ. Theoph. Ernestii suasque notas addidit Godofr. Henr. Schaefer. Lipsiae: Sumtibus Caspari Fritsch, 1805.

C. Plini Caecili Secundi Epistularum Libri Novem. Epistularum ad Traianum liber. Panegyricus. Ex recensione Henrici Keilii. Accedit index nominum cum rerum enarratione auctore Theodoro Mommsen. Lipsiae: In aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1870.

C. Plinii Caec. Secundi Epistolae et Panegyricus. Recensuit C. H. Weise. Editio stereotypa C. Tauchnitiana. Nova impressio. Lipsiae: Sumptibus Ottonis Holtze. 1874.

C. Plini Caecili Secundi Epistularum Libri Novem. Epistularum ad Traianum Liber. Panegyricus. Recensuit R. C. Kukula. Lipsiae: In aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1908.

Select Letters of Pliny the Younger. Latin text, with English notes. Edited by A. J. Church, M.A., and W. J. Brodribb, M.A. New edition. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1888.


English Translations.

☛William Melmoth’s translation is ubiquitous, and several other English translations are revisions of his (see also the Loeb edition above).

The Letters of Pliny the Consul: With occasional remarks. by William Melmoth, Esq. The fourth edition, corrected. London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1757.

Vol. I.

[Vol. II].

The Letters of Pliny the Consul: With occasional remarks. By William Melmoth, Esq. The ninth edition, revised and corrected. London: J. Dodsley, 1796.

Vol. I.

Vol. II.

The Letters of Pliny the Consul. With occasional remarks. By William Melmoth, Esq. The tenth edition, revised and corrected. London: [inverted pyramid of booksellers], 1805.

Volume I.
At HathiTrust.
At Google Books.

Volume II.
At HathiTrust.
At Google Books.

The Letters of Pliny the Younger. Literally translated, with notes. Melmoth’s translation, revised by Bosanquest. Philadelphia: David McKay Company; New York: Hinds, Noble & Eldredge, [no date]. —In the “Handy Literal Translations” series; the editions by the two different publishers seem identical and were probably printed from the same plates.

Vol. I. Books I–V.

Vol. II.
Another copy. Books VI–X.

The Letters of Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus. The translation of Melmoth, revised and corrected, with additional notes and a short memoir, by the Rev. F. C. T. Bosanquet, B.A. London: George Bell and Sons, 1905.
Another copy.

The Letters of Pliny the Younger, with observations on each letter; and an essay on Pliny’s life, addressed to Charles Lord Boyle. By John Earl of Orrery. London: Printed by James Bettenham for Paul Vaillant, 1751.

Vol. I.
Another copy, dated 1752.
Inferior scan at the Internet Archive.

Vol. II.
Inferior scan at the Internet Archive.
Dublin: George Faulkner, 1751.

The Letters of the Younger Pliny. Literally translated by John Delaware Lewis, M.A. London: Trübner & Co., 1879.

The Letters of the Younger Pliny. Translated, with an introductory essay, by John B. Firth, B.A. London: Walter Scott, [1900].

First series.
Another copy from a different printing.

Second series. —For some reason, this volume is digitized with a right-to-left page arrangement.

Pliny the Younger: Letters to Cornelius Tacitus on the death of the elder Pliny and the eruption of Vesuvius A. D. 79. A new version. Rome and Naples: Moroli’s Travel Bureau, [no date]. —The preface is signed Franco Moroli.

An Address of Thanks to a Good Prince, presented in the Panegyrick of Pliny upon Trajan, the best of Roman emperours. London: Printed for Tho. Fickus and William Hart, 1686. —The Epistle Dedicatory is signed White Kennet.