Minucius Macrinus

Minucius Macrinus

Minucius Macrinus (fl. 1st century AD) was a friend of Pliny the Younger, to whom the latter addressed many of his Epistles,[1] but of whose life we have no particulars, other than that he had a son, Minucius Acilianus, who was also a friend of Pliny's.[2]

References

  1. ^ Smith, William (1867), "Minucius", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 2, Boston, MA, pp. 886, http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/1994.html 
  2. ^ Pliny the Younger, Epistulae ii. 7, iii. 4, vii. 6, 10, viii. 17, ix. 4

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).



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