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); the audiobook is coming soon. 48 books; about 778,958 words. The translation was produced by a Claude model fleet and checked against the original, and says 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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