1For a long time now you have sent me no letters. 1There is nothing, you say, for me to write. 1Then write just this, that there is nothing for you to write, or only that phrase with which our forefathers used to begin: 'If you are well, that is good; 1I am well.' 2That is enough for me; 2for it is the greatest thing. 2Do you think I am joking? 2I ask in earnest. 2Let me know what you are doing, for I cannot be ignorant of it without the greatest anxiety. 2Farewell.
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Pliny · Epistulae I
Pliny, Letter 1.11
A plea for a letter
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