Paternus
2. A friend of the younger Pliny, who has ad dressed three letters to him. (Ep. i. 21, 4.14, 8.16.) He may perhaps be the Paternus, whom Martial (12.53) satirizes as a miser.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.