Pliny, Letter 10.67

1As for the envoy of King Sauromates; 1since he had of his own accord stayed two days at Nicaea, where he had found me, I did not think, sir, that he should be made to wait longer, first because it was still uncertain when your freedman Lycormas would come, and secondly because I myself was setting out for a different part of the province, as the demands of duty required. 2I thought this should be brought to your notice, because I had recently written that Lycormas had asked me to hold back any embassy that might come from the Bosporus until his arrival. 2No convincing reason occurred to me for doing this any longer, especially since the letters of Lycormas, which, as I said before, I was unwilling to detain, seemed likely to arrive some days ahead of the envoy.