Plinio el Joven requiere de la excusa para aclarar su controvertido éthos de noble romano dedicado a las aficiones literarias, especialmente la versificación culta. Su corpus epistolar refleja dos repertorios distintos de motivaciones: la poesía como entretenimiento de la nobleza y la poesía como ejercicio para el lenguaje. Ambos repertorios cuentan con la idea de otium como base. Ese otium en cambio es inviable para los miembros de la aristocracia romana, al menos en lo que a las relaciones literarias se refiere, constituidas en torno a circuli presentes en Roma, importantes grupos de actividad social y política.
Pliny the Younger used to display in his letter the rhetorical device of excusatio in order to polish his controvesial ethos, disrupted by the intermixing cathegories of landowner nobleman with political responsabilities and amateur versifier, devoted to culte poetry. The corpus shows two different kind of motivacional repertories to justify those supposed literarian jokes: the versification as high society entertainment and the versification as rhetorical progymnasmaton. Both repertories count on the otium concept as clue term, however it reveals the real problem of Pliny's ethos: the Roman aristocracy is not able to have a space completely separeted to frivolous dedications. The literarian life, organized around public circuli, is actually an important part of the public dynamics, specially in the Empire, of the powerful class, including political activity.
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