APFIVE Summarize a Latin text’s explicit meaning. The summary may contain, for example, a description of the ideas in the text, the setting of the text, and the sequence of events in the text.
According to the opening of the letter, what does Pliny’s correspondent want to know?
Ais te adductum litteris quas exigenti tibi de morte avunculi mei scripsi, cupere cognoscere, quos ego Miseni relictus - id enim ingressus abruperam - non solum metus verum etiam casus pertulerim. ‘Quamquam animus meminisse horret, …incipiam.’ Profecto avunculo ipse reliquum tempus studiis - ideo enim remanseram - impendi; mox balineum cena somnus inquietus et brevis. Praecesserat per multos dies tremor terrae, minus formidolosus quia Campaniae solitus; illa vero nocte ita invaluit, ut non moveri omnia sed verti crederentur.
What fears and dangers Pliny experienced while left at Misenum
How Pliny’s uncle died during the eruption of Vesuvius
What studies Pliny pursued after his uncle’s departure
Why Pliny decided to remain at Misenum instead of fleeing
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