1You have often urged me to collect and publish any letters that I had written with a little more care. 1I have collected them without keeping to the order of time (for I was not composing a history), but just as each had come into my hands. 2It remains for you not to regret your advice, nor me my compliance. 2For so it will turn out that I shall seek out those which still lie neglected, and shall not suppress any that I may add. 2Farewell.
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Pliny · Epistulae I
Pliny, Letter 1.1
Pliny agrees to publish his letters
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