In this work I deal with nominal composition in Pliny’s Panegyricus. Following Oniga’s tipology, first I classify each nominal compound recurring in that speech and then I propose their analysis, both in linguistic and literary terms. Also under this particular point of view, Pliny the Younger shows himself as a follower of “Ciceronian classicism” using a little number of compounds consacrated by an old tradition: no hapax legomena or neologisms recur. Finally I propose a comparison between the situation sketched in this work and those described by other scholars and myself with respect to other authors who have worked in earlier or later times (Julius Caesar, Sallust, Cicero, Cornelius Nepos, Varro, Tacitus, Petronius, Apuleius, Ammianus Marcellinus).
