Pliny the Younger & Pliny the Elder: Letters, Panegyricus & Natural History — a complete modern English translation made in 2026 by Scriptorium Press directly from the Latin, free to read online, free to download (EPUB and plain text), and free to listen to. 48 books; about 778,958 words. The translation was produced by a Claude model fleet and checked against the original; the audiobook is read by a synthetic voice, and both say so.
Who made this translation. Translated from the Latin by Scriptorium Press, 2026 (483,567 Latin words, 712 batches): the Perseus text of the Letters, The Latin Library text of the Panegyricus, and Mayhoff’s Teubner text of the Natural History. Claude Sonnet 5.5 translation fleet; Claude Opus 5.5 referee audit of every batch against the Latin, with every finding ruled on and fixed; Claude Opus 5.5 arbitration, and translation of the opening and closing of every book and of the most-read letters (Vesuvius, 6.16 and 6.20; the haunted house, 7.27; the Christians, 10.96–97). Zero shared 8-word runs with earlier public-domain English translations (Melmoth and its revisions, Firth, Bostock and Riley, Holland). Numbers are given as the Latin reads; where the Latin is lost the English shows [….]. The number before each paragraph is its place in the edition: letter and section in the Letters (.0 is the greeting), chapter in the Panegyricus, section in the Natural History.
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