A Couple of Things Pliny Can't Help With?: Panegyrici Latini XI(3)

Thematic influence of Pliny Panegyricus on the rhetorical armature and organization of the Panegyrici Latini is found plentiful (where verbal echo is lacking). Examination of PanLat XI(3) in its supplementary relations with X(2), and in its function within the collection as a considered unit with an overall thesis, however, brings out the impossibility of modelling dyarchic and tetrarchic political thought squarely on Pliny's post-Ciceronian focus on Trajan as limit-case, but underlines the negotiation through PanLat as an "album," or "generic archive," of shifting figures for imperatorial rule.