For bequests to his native town see the chief inscription (below). Besides these are mentioned gifts in his life-time. Under Domitian Pliny presented his townspeople with a library (_Ep._ i, 8), apparently worth 1,000,000 sesterces (v. 7), and endowed it with 100,000 sesterces. He also gave 500,000 sesterces for the support of freeborn boys and girls (_Ep._ i, 8); and promised to pay one-third of the salary of the professor of rhetoric at Comum (_Ep._ iv. 13, 5). The following is the chief inscription of Pliny (as restored by Mommsen), which was erected at the _Thermae_ which he presented to Comum (_C.I.L._ v. 5262): 'C. Plinius L. f. Ouf. Caecilius _Secundus cos._ augur legat. pro pr. provinciae Pon_ti et Bithyniae_ consulari potesta_t_. in eam provinciam e_x. s. c. missus ab_ Imp. Caesar. Nerva Traiano Aug. German_ico Dacico p.p_. curator alvei Ti_b_eris et riparum e_t cloacar. urb_. praef. aerari Satu_r_ni praef. aerari mil_it. pr. trib. pl_. quaestor imp. sevir equitum _Romanorum_ trib. milit. leg. _iii_. Gallicae _x.vir stli_tib. iudicand. therm_as ex HS_ ... adiectis in ornatum HS ccc ... _et eo amp_lius in tutela_m_ HS CC t. f. i. _item in alimenta_ libertor. suorum homin. C. HS XVIII LXVI DCLXVI rei_p. legavit, quorum inc_rement. postea ad epulum _pl_eb. urban. voluit pertin_ere ... item vivus_ dedit in aliment. pueror. et puellar. pleb. urban. HS D _item bybliothecam et_ in tutelam bybliothecae HS C.' Pliny was also patron of Tifernum Tiberinum and of the Baetici. _Ep._ iv. 1, 4, 'Oppidum est praediis nostris vicinum, nomen Tiferni Tiberini, quod me paene adhuc puerum patronum cooptavit ... In hoc ego ... templum pecunia mea exstruxi, cuius dedicationem ... differre longius inreligiosum est.' _Ep._ iii. 4, 4, 'Legati ... inplorantes fidem meam, quam essent contra Massam Baebium experti, adlegantes patrocini foedus.' Pliny married three times, twice under Domitian. Cf. _ad Trai._ 2, 'Liberos ... habere etiam tristissimo illo saeculo volui, sicut potes duobus matrimoniis meis credere.' For his third wife, Calpurnia, who died A.D. 97, see _Ep._ iv. 19. Pliny had no children, but Trajan conferred on him the _ius trium liberorum_ in A.D. 98. Cf. _ad Trai._ 2, 'Me dignum putasti iure trium liberorum.' _Pliny as orator and writer._--Most of Pliny's cases were before the _centumviri_, who dealt with inheritances: cf. _Ep._ vi. 12, 2, 'in harena mea, hoc est apud centumviros.' So Mart. x. 19, 14 (written A.D. 96), 'Totos dat tetricae dies Minervae dum centum studet auribus virorum hoc quod saecula posterique possint Arpinis quoque comparare chartis.' For Pliny's five speeches in criminal trials before the Senate see above. Cf. _Ep._ vi. 29, 7 _sqq._, 'Egi quasdam a senatu iussus ... Adfui Baeticis contra Baebium Massam ... Adfui rursus isdem querentibus de Caecilio Classico ... Accusavi Marium Priscum ... Tuitus sum Iulium Bassum ... Dixi proxime pro Vareno.'