It is likely late afternoon as the ships approach shore.ġ1 Iam navibus cinis incidebat, quo propius accederent, calidior et densior iam pumices etiam nigrique et ambusti et fracti igne lapides iam vadum subitum ruinaque montis litora obstantia. He is commanding several warships, and noting down his observations of the eruption as it develops.
This is the fourth installment for letter 6.16.Īt this point in the story, the Elder Pliny has set off to rescue citizens trapped in their villas below Vesuvius on the east edge of the Bay of Naples. This post belongs to a serialized translation and commentary of Pliny the Younger’s letters ( 6.16 and 6.20) to the historian Tacitus about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
A Roman seaside villa on a sunnier day (fresco from the Villa San Marco, Stabiae)
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