"The literary remains of the rhetorician Marcus Cornelius Fronto first came to light in 1815, when Cardinal Mai, then prefect of the Ambrosian Library in Milan, discovered that beneath an account of the Acts of the first Council of ...

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Melmonth's translation of Pliny's Letters, was first pub. in 1746. Pliny, the Younger is also know as Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Gaius.

The letters of Cicero range from the most informal communications with members of his family to serious and elaborate compositions which are practically treatises in epistolary form.