Delight and torment. The love of Pliny and Calpurnia (Epist. 6.7)

Abstract

This paper attempts to make progress in the philological commentary on the “Cycle of Calpurnia” (Epist. 6.4 and 7; 7.5) in the letters of Pliny the Younger, focusing, on this occasion, on Epist. 6.7.