 The first, beginning with "This year has produced a healthy crop of poets", is on the health of contemporary Roman literature.The second is a request for a commission as military tribune on behalf of the relative of Pliny's friend Calvisius Rufus.Plutarch also dedicated several of his "Parallel Lives" ("Theseus", 1, "Demosthenes" 1, "Brutus" 1) as well some of the individual "Moralia" ("Quaestiones conviviales" and "Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectus") to Senecio.