A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

a friend of the younger Pliny, whom he looked up to as a father, and of whom he always speaks with the highest veneration and respect. Corellius had been a martyr to hereditary gout for 33 years; and at length, in order to escape from the incessant pain which he suffered, he put an end to his life by voluntary starvation at the age of 67, at the commencement of Trajan's reign. His virtues and his death form the subject of one of the letters of Pliny (Plin. Ep. 1.12), who also mentions him on many other occasions. (Ep. 4.17.4, 5.1.5, 7.11.3, 9.13.6.)