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It focuses on two canonical catalogue-like epistles (2.17 and 6.5, the villa-letters) and compares them to a sample of Martial’s epigrams (9.59 and 12.32), which are marked by the same insistence on the formal invariant of the enumeration, but which fully endorse the ‘objective’ representation of their objects. This chapter explores some of the connotations that Pliny’s culture associated with the act of publishing as they are reflected in and constructed by his epistles.

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