The Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1

He discloses his character therein so completely, and, in spite of his glaring fault of vanity and his endless love of adulation, that character is in the main so charming, that one can easily understand the high esteem in which Pliny was held by the wide circle of his friends, by the Emperor Trajan, and by the public at large.

他在这些信中完全展示了他自己的性格，尽管他有明显的虚荣心和对赞美无尽的渴望，但他的性格总体上是如此迷人，以至于人们很容易理解普林尼为何受到他的朋友们、皇帝图拉真以及广大公众的高度尊敬。

The correspondence of Pliny the Younger depicts for us the everyday life of a Roman gentleman in the best sense of the term.

小普林尼的书信为我们描绘了一位罗马绅士在最佳意义上的日常生活。