Citations:ordinariness


 * 2019, Charles McGrath, They Were the Renaissance Men of Roman Antiquity, (10 December 2019);
 * Ultimately her enthusiasm, together with her eye for the odd, surprising detail, wins you over, and the younger Pliny gradually emerges as a mostly sympathetic character, interesting for his ordinariness and for the ways he resembles us today. He almost seems familiar, in a way the elder Pliny could never be. He was house-proud, for example, forever embarking on renovation projects. He fussed over his finances, keeping close tabs on his harvests of grapes and grain, which supplied most of his wealth.