1You invite me to your Formian villa. 1I shall come on condition that you do nothing against your own convenience; 1by this agreement I protect myself in turn. 1For it is not the sea and the shore that I seek, but you, leisure, freedom: otherwise it is better to stay in the city. 2For one must do everything either at another's pleasure or at one's own. 2Such at any rate is the nature of my stomach that it wants nothing but what is whole and unmixed. 2Farewell.
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Pliny · Epistulae VI
Pliny, Letter 6.14
An invitation to Formiae
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