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Pliny Epistle 9.36 and Demosthenes’ Cave
- Classical World
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 106, Number 4, Summer 2013
- pp. 665-668
- 10.1353/clw.2013.0087
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This note identifies an unnoticed allusion in Pliny Epistle 9.36 to the story of Demosthenes’ cave, and explicates how that allusion responds in specific terms to the passage in Quintilian (Pliny’s teacher) in which the story of the cave is told; the upshot is a reading of Pliny’s letter as an allusive and dialogic text of considerable sophistication.