1I have received some very fine thrushes, which I cannot match with an equal reckoning, either from the resources of the city, being at my Laurentine house, or from the sea in such stormy weather. 2So you will receive a letter that is barren and frankly ungrateful, not even imitating the shrewdness of Diomedes in exchanging gifts. 2But such is your good nature that you will pardon it all the more because it confesses it does not deserve pardon. 2Farewell.
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Pliny · Epistulae V
Pliny, Letter 5.2
Thanks for a gift of thrushes
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