Tertia · Unit 3 · Lesson 3
Pliny and Trajan: a fire at Nicomedia
A governor asks for a fire brigade, and the emperor says no.
You will be able to
- Read Pliny’s letter to Trajan and Trajan’s reply (Letters 10.33–34)
- Recognize an “whether”, the gerundive of obligation, and a hortatory meminerimus
New words
- incendium, incendiī, n. fire, blazeEnglish: incendiary
- opus, operis, n. work; buildingEnglish: opus, operate
- dominus, dominī, m. master; as a form of address, “sir, my lord”