1How can I better prove to you how much I admire your Greek epigrams than by the fact that I have tried to rival and render some of them in Latin? 1but for the worse. 1This comes about first from the weakness of my talent, and then from the poverty, or rather, as Lucretius says, the penury of our native tongue. 2But if these, which are both Latin and mine, seem to you to have some charm, how much grace do you think there is in those which are put forth both by you and in Greek! 2Farewell.
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Pliny · Epistulae IV
Pliny, Letter 4.18
Greek epigrams rendered in Latin
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