Calvisius
decurion of Comum, correspondent of Pliny the Younger|Comum
Calvisius Rufus, a decurion (town councillor) of Comum, Pliny the Younger's home town in Transpadane Italy, and one of Pliny's regular correspondents around the turn of the 2nd century AD. Pliny addresses several surviving letters to him on practical and financial matters, including the prudence of buying an adjoining estate and the etiquette of horse-racing partisanship at the games, treating Calvisius as a trusted equestrian friend and sounding-board from his native region. Beyond what Pliny's correspondence reveals, little independent record of him survives; he is known chiefly through this epistolary friendship.
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From Pliny the Youngerc. 100 AD
Get ready your penny and I will tell you a golden story, no, more than one, for the new one has reminded me of some...
From Pliny the Youngerc. 100 AD
I don't think I ever spent a more delightful time than during my recent visit at Spurinna's house; indeed, I enjoyed...
From Pliny the Youngerc. 100 AD
I want to ask your advice, as I have often done, on a matter of private business.
From Pliny the Youngerc. 104 AD
It is beyond question that a community cannot be appointed heir and cannot take a share of an inheritance before the...
From Pliny the Youngerc. 107 AD
Other people go to their estates to return richer than they went ; I go to come back the poorer.
From Pliny the Youngerc. 107 AD
I have been spending all my time here among my tablets and books as quietly as I could wish.