1How are your old Marsian lands treating you? 1how is your new purchase? Do the fields please you, now that they have become yours? 1That is rare indeed, for nothing is as pleasing to those who have obtained it as to those who long for it. 2My mother's estates treat me none too kindly, yet they delight me as being my mother's, and besides I have grown hardened through long endurance. 2Constant complaints have this end, that one is ashamed to complain. 2Farewell.
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Pliny · Epistulae II
Pliny, Letter 2.15
Estates old and new
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