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.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
Smith, William
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890