98. Pliny (in Panegyr. c. 3, 55, etc.) speaks of Dominus
with execration, as synonymous to Tyrant, and opposite to
Prince. And the same Pliny regularly gives that title (in
the tenth book of the epistles) to his friend rather than
master, the virtuous Trajan. This strange contradiction
puzzles the commentators who think, and the translators who
can write.