1Is all well, since your letters have now long ceased? 1Or is all well, but you are busy? 1Or are you not busy, but the opportunity for writing rare or non-existent? 2Relieve me of this anxiety, which I cannot cope with; relieve it, even by sending a courier on purpose. 2I will pay his travel expenses, I will even give him a reward, if only he brings the news I hope for. 3I myself am well, if it is being well to live in suspense and anxiety, expecting hour by hour, and fearing for the life of my dearest friend, whatever can befall a man. 3Farewell.
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Pliny · Epistulae III
Pliny, Letter 3.17
Anxious for news of a friend
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