1Lycormas your freedman has written to me, sir, that if any embassy should come from the Bosporus on its way to Rome, it should be held back until his arrival. 1No embassy, at least to the city in which I myself am, has come so far, but a courier of King Sauromates has come, and, making use of the opportunity which chance had offered me, I thought he should be sent with the courier who preceded Lycormas on his journey, so that you might learn equally from the letters of Lycormas and of the king things which perhaps you ought to know at the same time.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.63
A courier from the Bosporus
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