Pliny.+Panegyric

Also Pliny the Younger, written in AD 100 when he received the consulship. In general, this is really a lot of flattery and sucking up to Trajan, in typically flowery language. Pliny praises Trajan as being Rome's "father" and not its "overlord," and paints Trajan as a very popular emperor who is loved by all This reveals what the Roman upper class expected of an emperor (not a tyrant, man of the people), what they admired about Trajan, and what they thought about their past as well as about their contemporary senate.

TRAJAN FANBOY