 Funeral orations, such as the famous speech of Pericles in Thucydides, also partook of the nature of panegyrics.The Romans generally confined the panegyric to the living, and reserved the funeral oration exclusively for the dead.The most celebrated example of a Latin panegyric, however, is that delivered by the younger Pliny (AD 100) in the Senate on the occasion of his assumption of the consulship, which contained a eulogy of Trajan considered fulsome by some scholars.