"We have to thank Pliny for our knowledge of the great eruption of Vesuvius which overwhelmed Pompeii and Herculaneum, and it was probably only due to the accident that the elder Pliny was one of the victims that we possess the two striking letters in which the disaster is described. "
J.B. FIRTH.
The Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 by the Younger Pliny at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3234
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